Download Audiobooks for Summer Assignments

Are you scrambling to find a copy of 'The Things They Carried' for your summer reading assignment? Are you taking a long car trip with your parents? Do you have an MP3 player? Then let me do you a solid...

Netlibrary offers free downloadable audiobooks to anyone with a Durham County Library card. You 'check out' titles by downloading them to your computer or MP3 player. When your checkout expires, the file is deleted from your device.

One caveat: To use the service, your player must support playback of protected WMA files. That means it will NOT work on an IPod. For more tech specs and an FAQ, click here.

Here's a list of some DPS summer reading titles that are available on audiobook through NetLibrary.

Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

Raney by Clyde Edgerton

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien