There is only one thing I don't care for in our Library...
... which is otherwise much better than I would have expected for a community like the Wilkesboros. And that is the use of heavily abridged recorded books. The last trip I made with MFH we listened to An Army at Dawn. It was hacked down by about two thirds and what was left was barely comprehensible. It is a non-fiction account of the American army in the North African campaign at the start of World War II. So much was left out that it was like watching a movie that every now and then would have 15 or 20 minutes cut out of it. Now I am listening to The Historian and it has the same problem. The only difference is I don't feel too bad about missing over 2/3's of schlock like this. But to do it to a brilliant piece of historical research like An Army at Dawn is a sin, if not a crime.

Still, the library insists on doing this for some reason. It is a problem made much worse by the talking book companies now trying to hide as much as possible the fact that they are abridged. I hope this is because the library is trying to stretch their budget (mistakenly in my opinion) and not because they think that their patrons want this mutilated junk.

Does anybody out there know?