It has been a while since I’ve looked at the total number of ebooks and audiobooks available in our library’s OverDrive system. Over a year, in fact! The figures are encouraging, though:
| Audio fiction | Audio non-fiction | Ebook fiction | Ebook non-fiction | Total | |
| December 2010 | 4,202 | 1,060 | 1,185 | 139 | 6,586 |
| February 2011 | 4,534 | 1,089 | 3,297 | 505 | 9,425 |
| August 2011 | 5,197 | 1,139 | 5,773 | 880 | 12,989 |
| January 2012 | 6,271 | 1,208 | 11,560 | 1,543 | 20,582 |
| April 2013 | 6,999 | 1,516 | 20,281 | 3,410 | 32,206 |
The growth is clearly in the ebooks, rather than audio books, which is unsurprising, as audiobooks are generally a lot more expensive.
I’m still very much a hybrid reader but do prefer to read books as ebooks if I have the option. When I read physical books I miss the option of tapping on a word to find out its meaning or of increasing the size of the text when I’m reading in low light levels or when my eyes are tired.
I recently re-read my own two books and found a few editing errors in both. Those have now been fixed. I’m working on a third Hawley Lodge book (with more of an historical angle to it) – but progress is slow due to a lot of other commitments at the moment. Watch this space!
