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!