<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Tara, </div><div><br></div><div>East Palestine is purchasing Wonderbooks and Tonie characters (although circulation on these is waning) but our teens have never been interested in audio.</div><div><br></div><div>Tamra</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Tamra Hess, Director</b><br>East Palestine Memorial Public Library<br>309 North Market Street<br>East Palestine, OH 44413<br>330-426-3778 (phone)<br>330-426-4950 (fax)</div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM Tara Bahnsen via OPLINLIST <<a href="mailto:oplinlist@lists.oplin.org">oplinlist@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>We just discarded our entire audiobook on CD collection. Circulation for the collection was only 234 for all of last year, so no point keeping it.</div>
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