Booking the iPod Shuffle.

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The tiny iPod shuffle was developed so listeners could randomize their music collections, but the South Huntington Public Library (SHPL), Huntington Station, NY, has bought ten such devices for downloadable audiobooks. Titles come from the Apple iTunes site via Audible.com, which had marketed directly to libraries a few years ago but found that few wanted to buy and distribute digital devices. SHPL bought six shuffles with one-gigabyte capacity ($149 each), the equivalent of a 16-hour audiobook, and four with 512 megabytes ($99 each), or eight-hour capacity.

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