![]() The library now offers 10 of the tiny devices and 14 titles, downloaded from Apple's iTunes Web site. While other libraries across the country, and at least two others on Long Island, are lending out audiobooks in digital form, the South Huntington Library is among the first, if not the first, to let patrons borrow iPods.Įach Shuffle, the smaller cousin of the ubiquitous music player made by Apple, can hold an entire book while the same book can take up a dozen CD's or two dozen cassettes. ![]() ![]() The library already provides wireless Internet access in its new building and lets patrons borrow laptops. "The library should be a place where technology can be made available to everybody," Ken Weil, the library's director, said of the iPod lending program, which started last month using a $1,300 state grant. EAGER to spread technology to patrons who may not have it, the South Huntington Library has begun lending out iPod Shuffles loaded with popular titles like "Reading Lolita in Tehran," by Azar Nafisi and James Lee Burke's "In The Moon Of Red Ponies" in the MP3 digital format.
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