While high-tech devices such as MP3 players are customarily linked to young people, Midstate libraries are finding they also attract a different audience: senior citizens.That's because the libraries have begun offering popular "audio books" that can be downloaded via the Internet and played on the devices.
"I don't really know how to use an MP3 player, but I know enough to know how to do this," said Jim Burgin, 67, of Brentwood. "My grandson, my grandchildren — they have that all down, but I don't." 
The Brentwood library has created a program, with federal funding, to teach older adults how to download the audio files and operate an MP3 player.
Libraries across the country are seeing the trend and encouraging it.
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