<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone, <div>My library is in a state of flux regarding digital audiobooks that allow for multiple listeners at the same time. </div><div><br></div><div>What does your library use?</div><div> </div><div>Would you be willing to provide extra details like: </div><div><ul><li>cost </li><li>how many checkouts each patron gets using the service </li><li>if you like it/love it/hate it, etc.  </li></ul></div><div><br>For some background information, we started with Hoopla, but when they got too expensive for us we switched to RBdigital. Then RBdigital was purchased by Overdrive. Overdrive agreed to honor the amazing deal we had with RBdigital through the end of the contract, but that has now expired...so we are left without digital audiobooks that allow more than one patron to check it out at a time. <br><br>We do offer regular digital audiobooks through Overdrive and Overdrive Advantage but they are one patron per copy at a time. <br><br>Any advice, details, and links you can provide will be greatly appreciated by us and our patrons! Thank you very much for your time.<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="102"><col width="440"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:90pt"><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://loutitlibrary.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:90px;height:85px"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_4VXtvfF-WXeUa3WV35AJQUN2s0S_27youNTTnDiEZ69xBgp-IigfFVRn4Tver3HYMxQpqNLvOofrnP7HN3PzALSKTTttEqW8Ru7Uo6dWJYLjTqZeusJWXmyf-duFCoR7r_29Zwb" width="90" height="85" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></a></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 0.9907650000000001pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,107,179);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christina LeVey-Rowland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Library Assistant II</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">she/her (</span><a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">what’s this?</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">616.850.6921 |</span><a href="http://loutitlibrary.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,107,179);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">loutitlibrary.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">407 Columbus Ave. Grand Haven, MI 49417</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(86,142,16);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Expanding Horizons. Enriching Minds. Engaging Community.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(86,142,16);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></sp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