Downloadable Media – iHCPL Week 9 #22

Now that someone did me the favor of breaking into my car and stealing my purse, including my new iPod Classic, I can once again take advantage of HCPL’s downloadable media service using my old standby MP3 device: a Creative Zen MicroPhoto. (like other media services that don’t go by the name “iTunes,” the HCPL downloadable media service isn’t compatible with iPods)

I’ve taught a session on the service at my library, so I’m quite familiar with the service already. However, even if I weren’t, the ease of using the service would make me a quick adopter of this service.

If I were the type of person who could listen to a book (see my previous post on this issue).

If I were this type of person, I would readily hook up my old Zen MicroPhoto and start downloading some Janet Evanovich or James Patterson or Nicholas Sparks or Meg Cabot.

But I’m not, so instead I’ll go back to worrying about how Comcast has messed things up by switching me from my current cable company to them while they’ve been digging around in my backyard, performing “cable upgrades,” which has in turn required us to temporarily reset our Tivo so that it will record things on the proper channels. But even though the channel lineup is correct our season passes to shows have not updated to the correct channels and things aren’t recording correctly. I’m beginning to understand why a 75-year-old woman would want to mete out some revenge by taking a hammer to her local Comcast office.

But back to the original topic: downloadable media is cool! You should try it some day!