I had fun browsing NetLibrary's eAudiobook offerings. (Did you know that the audio version of James Joyce's Ulysses is over forty two hours long?!) (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, by comparison, is just eleven and a half hours.)
I enjoy audiobooks, although I don't listen to them as often as I'd like to. But I know how important they are to many of our patrons, and it's great to be able to recommend the titles available through NetLibrary. I especially like the genre breakdown that's available and the fact that users can sort to display the newest titles first and limit their search to only return items of a specific duration - these factors could matter to a lot of users, and the options for each are very easy to spot when searching or browsing.
My recommendation came up in a search for audiobooks from 2011 that clock in at under twelve hours; I thought this kind of search might appeal to a patron looking to hear something new but not too long. A title that sounded appealing was Jay Winik's House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War. I like the idea of listening to history as opposed to reading it, and at 7 hours 37 minutes, this title seems like a good way to learn something new about the Civil War in a fairly short amount of time.
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