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!