Doesn't your local public library provide access to MP3 audiobooks? Many, if not most, do.

Tell me which small towns do, and we'll consider it for our retirement plans, but our present small town of choice is not one of them. Maybe big-city Mudcatters can find MP3 resources at their libraries, but I doubt small-town and rural Catters can. One reason would be that they are so affordable as a commodity that a library doesn't have to fund them. Books on tape, there may be a few.

~Susan