#22 Ebooks and #23 Audio Books

The library I work in has a large audio book collection and at this stage only a small e-book collection but I know that will only grow!
I think audio books are great - as you said in your introduction for ESL students (of which we have a large proporation in one of the schools I work) and also for the Adult literacy students too. They especially like it when they can read the book and listen to it at the same time.
Our distance education students really like them too - they tell us they listen in the car when travelling, when crutching/shearing/branding etc sheep/cattle etc.
Some students who have learning difficulties, eg those with dyslexia also like to use them as they find it easier to hear the whole story and keep up with the class if required than struggle through trying to read it themselves (and they tell me they often spend so much time on words they lose meaning).
I am sure E-books will have appeal for similar reasons. And the students who have iPhones, iPods and soon iPads too will want to use them! Our students are often keen to do what they can using online tools so will try the e-books too. So, they will want to see them used in classrooms.
I am still trying to work out how we will manage e-books on a wider scale as a library,eg, will students/clients supply their own 'readers', subscritions for titles - how long will they last etc.
I now read much more online so am sure I will soon be reading with a reader - but only for some purposes. The good old book will still be used by me and I am sure others for a while - the 'reader' at this stage doesn't have the recreational feel about it!
So, the future - at least in the short term will be a mixture of both, I think.