Week 11 Prompt 
Ebooks and audiobooks are a part of our landscape. What does the change in medium mean for appeal factors? If you can't hold a book and feel the physical weight of it in your hands, how does that affect your knowledge of the genre? How about reader's being able to change the font, line spacing, and color of text-how does that affect pacing and tone? How about audiobooks? Track length, narrator choice, is there musics? For this week, I want you to think about how ebooks and audiobooks affect appeal factors-also think about appeals that are unique to both mediums. Please feel free to use your own experience and that of your patrons.

I think that the appeal factor for audiobooks and ebooks are both very different from the traditional hand held book and also from each other. Audiobooks, I believe appeal to those who like to hear the story being played out. The sound of a good narrator playing the different roles of the characters of the book expands the experience of the book. If you are like me, a person who doesn't care much about long details of the scenery or technical details in a story, then listening to the book helps to get through those parts I find dry and boring. As well as the parts that I find hard to read through. The Time Traveler's Wife was a very difficult book for me to read through because of the going back and forth and telling backwards, but listening to the story gave me the understanding of the story line I missed while reading it. This speaks a little bit to the pacing of the story. I have no control over how fast or slow the story plays out, unless I pause it or turn it off. I also like to listen to audiobooks while driving. I spend a lot of time in the car alone and enjoy having something to think about. The only problem I find is the fact that my car stereo appears to keep playing the cd ever after I shut it off or leave the car, so upon reentry I have to find my place by rewinding to the place I left off. Also if the narrator doesn't do a good job it can also ruin the whole experience on what could of been a great story. Sometimes I feel like the narrator's voice just isn't correct to tell the story of the character. Its like reading a book that comes to movie and the character who plays them looks nothing like the person described in the book version. So frustrating! Overall I do enjoy an audiobook, but I find myself very frustrated when I borrow an audiobook from the library and get to the last disc and it will not play due to being scratched. This is a problem for many patrons and I find myself encouraging them to use downloaded versions of the book in these cases. 

Ebooks are a different animal for me though. For the most part I would prefer to have a good old book to hold onto. I like the feel of the book, the artwork and the satisfaction of seeing my progress by physically turning the pages. Even though you do get some of the artwork and cover when you download an ebook, I don't know that it is the same. That is not to say there are not benefits to having the option of an ebook. As mentioned in the questioning, it is possible to be able to change to font for readers to see the print better. This opens up an experience for readers that may not be able to read a regular book. I also like that I can any number of titles available to me at any time and download books at anytime. When I worked a security job, I spent 12 long hours sitting. Having access to so many books on one tablet defiantly helped me through my long nights. 

I think having options is what makes these formats so wonderful. I don't know that one way is better than the other, or that you miss out on anything by "reading" them a certain way. It is just a matter of preference!!