>Archeology

by Roger Sutton
Dec 05, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>We're doing an office clean-up today and uncovered something that seems far too relic-like for its relatively unadvanced age: an unabridged cassette recording of Ian McEwan's Atonement. Narrated by Jill Tanner, it's a superb rendition, but who knows from cassettes anymore?
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Jess

>The CD audio books are only very gradually overtaking the cassette audio books at my library - nothing at all like the DVD/VHS switchover. We've stopped ordering them, but they're still circulating fairly well.

Posted : Dec 09, 2008 09:44

Anonymous

>Cassettes are still the best for making your own recordings. I recorded my son reading the All About Dinosaurs book he wrote in first grade. And my kids listen to tapes of us reading together all the time. Is there something easy to use that replaces this yet?

Posted : Dec 08, 2008 04:18

sdn

>me. i own a walkman as well as a boombox and listen to cassettes every single day. (i also have an 8-track player somewhere.)

Posted : Dec 06, 2008 04:37

Liz B

>National Library Services for the Blind & Handicapped still uses cassettes; but we are moving to digital cartridges and downloads during 2009.

Posted : Dec 05, 2008 11:58

Roger Sutton

>I miss them, personally, especially for audiobooks. CDs are impossible for keeping your place, even when I transfer them to iTunes to use with my iPod. I love the Audible.com program but listening to one or two large mp.3 files somehow doesn't give one the same sense of accomplishment as methodically working through a box of tapes.

Posted : Dec 05, 2008 08:28

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