MAKE THE MOST OUT OF RUSH HOUR.
The average American spends almost an hour a day traveling to and from work.* Thanks to libraries, you can spend that time immersed in a good book: in a recent survey of 395 public libraries, 96% of respondents offered downloadable audiobooks.**
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*Jarosz, Beth and Cortes, Rachel T. “In U.S., New Data Show Longer, More Sedentary Commutes,” Population Reference Bureau, September 2014. Available at http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2014/us-commuting.aspx
**“Audiobooks and Public Libraries,” Library Journal, March 2016. Available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/WebVault/research/LJ_Audiobooks_PublicLibraries_Mar2016.pdf
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