Join the Audiobook Trail Challenge at the Toledo Library
Daily Dose | 06/06/2019 10:00 am
The Toledo Lucas County Public Library is proud to partner with Metroparks Toledo for the Audiobook Trail Challenge as part of Summer Read. Walk, run, roller-blade or cycle at any Metropark location while listening to a downloadable audiobook from the Library. Then log your finished audiobooks and be entered to win great prizes.
Fun Facts About Audiobooks:
- Audiobooks have been around for more than a century.
- In the United States, audiobooks were introduced in the 1930’s by the “Books for the Adult Blind” project after President Herbert Hoover signed into law the Pratt-Smoot Act, which granted funding to libraries for providing books to the blind.
- The first audiobooks made available in the US included The Bible, The Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s Farewell Address, and selected works by Shakespeare.
- At first, audiobooks were recorded on 12-inch phonograph records, but have also been offered on cassette tape and CD (compact disc). Now, they're readily available to download or stream on any smart-device.
- The first audiobooks recorded in the UK were Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon.
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