Thing 3- Something that Interests Me About Technology

One of the technology topics I am in interested in is audio books. I am moving from a high school library to an elementary library this fall. At the high school, we stopped buying cassette tapes and even CDs. We purchased iPod shuffles and other mp3 players and downloaded audio books, but frankly, they didn’t take off like we thought they would. I was surprised that there were so few audio books in my new elementary library, because I find listening to books an essential skill for emerging readers. I was wondering if anyone had thoughts about the preferred format for audio books at the elementary level. Certainly I will not purchase cassettes, but what about playaways, CDs or mp3s?