Summer Roadtrip? Free Audiobook Downloads from Sync

Planning a summer road trip? Sync, "an online community that seeks to build the audience for audiobooks among readers 13 and up", will be offering free audiobook downloads throughout the summer. Each week, one recent young adult book and one classic book will be available for download free of charge. Here's a partial list:

Available July 1 - July 7
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Available July 8 - July 14
Over the End Line by Alfred C. Martino
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Available July 15 - July 21
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Available July 22 - July 28
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Available July 29 - August 4
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Available August 5 - August 11
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Check out the Sync website for more information and a full schedule of books: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/sync/index.html

Check out the Horry County Memorial Library Website Re-Design

Check out the cool new website redesign of the Horry County Memorial Library! Did you know? CCU students (and faculty and staff, too, of course) can get a library card from the Horry County Libraries to check out materials. The public library system has many great resources including Audiobooks and current NYT bestselling fiction and non-fiction. There are many branches of the Horry County Library, including several near CCU's campus, in Conway, Socastee, and Surfside Beach.

Planning a Summer Road Trip? Find Free Audiobooks Online at LibriVox.org

If you like to listen to audiobooks in the car or at the beach, you might want to check out LibriVox.org. LibriVox is a volunteer-run project that makes MP3 audio recordings of public domain (think pre-1930s, generally from the Project Gutenberg database) books available for free online. You'll find lots of classic fiction, non-fiction, poetry, speeches, and other great stuff. You can even subscribe to their updates through iTunes. It could be an easy, fun, free way to get ahead on next semester's reading, or just a good way to make a long day of driving go by a little bit faster.