Once again Lumber Room has been astonished -- although, we should be used to it by now -- by the lack of compatibility of the
Overdrive Audio-Book Software with the current & not so current MacIntosh operating Systems. Suffice it to say that if Lumber Room endeavors to hear a Work of spoken Words through the Computer, we will have to do it the old fashioned Way, uploading CDs. As yet another Insult to Injury, Overdrive also offers a Software Program for upstart MP3 players that are not iPods.
In their defence,
Overdrive does have a growing Library of readable Electronic Books that can be accessed with the Adobe Reader. An interesting note that in MacIntosh Tiger (OSX.4) & Leopard (OSX.5) when using the Safari Browser a pdf File opens automatically & expands into a complete Screen rather than as a downloaded File that must be launched to read.
An advanced Search of Literature through the BCL Overdrive Catalogue for Electronic Books in pdf File yielded only one Work of note & a modern Work at that,
1984. Mr. Orwell, who is responsible for this widely read Work was prone to Fits of Paranoia & an intense Belief that someone other than the L-rd above was watching him. Lumber Room has heard that this was to due to a Confrontation with a rampaging Elephant some years ago during his Service as a Policeman in Burma.
Before becoming an established literary Lion, Mr. Orwell, who was a moderately successful Author, was invited to broadcast over the BBC Indian Service (1941-43) originating from Bush House, London as a Countermeasure to German Propaganda (mostly classical Music) broadcast to the Sub-continent. Many of the recorded Broadcasts survive today & were available online at BBC's Website during the Celebration of the one hundredth Anniversary of his Birth in 2003. The removal of these Broadcasts from the BBC Website & their Refusal to broadcast Premier League Football over the World Service, plus various political Differences with the Library Lumber Room have created a Loathing for BBC Media. But, alas I am travelling on a Tangent.
"The only concession I want from Germany is that she gives me a loaf of bread, tells the gentlemen with muskets at the main gate to look the other way, and leaves the rest to me. In return I am prepared to hand over India, an autographed set of my books, and to reveal the secret process of cooking sliced potatoes on a radiator. This offer holds good till Wednesday week." P.G. Wodehouse -- speaking of his Internment at Trost, Belgium 1941
