Books For Soldiers

Has anyone else heard of this yet?

Books For Soldiers
http://booksforsoldiers.com/

It's a website where our soldiers can register and then request books and all of us at home can register and send donations.

I've only just discovered them today, I looked a bit through the forum, the FAQ and Help pages and it sounds pretty good to me.

If your soldier is a reader and needs reading material, this sounds like it is a good place to start getting some books.

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The REASON I was looking and found the site in the first place:

I was looking for the organization that helps soldiers record themselves reading children's books that they can send home to their kids.

~Read Aloud Recordings~

How cool is this! I know my daughter will be THRILLED to hear her dad reading to her. It was a nightly ritual before he left and now it's wonderful that it's still possible to continue.

They get to send home the CD recording and the book.

My Question:

Has anyone heard of who it is that's doing the recordings? Being a librarian, I am VERY interested in getting involved. Particularly since the Read Aloud lists have been a pet project of mine since I became a librarian over 13 years ago.

I would very willingly head up a donation organization for this. I just have to make sure I'm not doing something someone else is already doing.

p.s. I have read aloud lists available for anyone who wants them. I can email them in Wordperfect or Microsoft Word or I also have them online (but not very pretty looking) on my Laptime and Storytime ( http://laptimeandstorytime.googlepages.com/ )webpage, just scroll down, bottom of the right-hand column, click on the links.