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Originally Posted by slayda
Now that profjulie has discovered how to read library ebooks with her Cybook Gen3, people may be looking for ebook libraries (elibraries) where they can check out ebooks.
There has been some talk on this BLOG about "clevnet" which seems to be restricted to libraries in the Cleveland Ohio (USA) area. However since electrons can easily travel worldwide, is there any reason to restrict ebook check out to geographical areas? Are there any elibraries that are open to the general public, regardless of where they live? Does anyone know of cooperative efforts of elibraries across geo-political boundries?
I live in north Alabama and have not found any elibraries where fiction ebooks can be checked out.
It would be interesting to compile a list of elibraries along with their check out restrictions.  |
there are some libraries that permit full checkout by anybody but they are few and far between and are usually Universities. check my web site for more on this topic and other eBook stuff.
Public libraries use public funds for purchasing the books and these funds are generated by local taxes. For this reason they limit the checkout to people who paid for the books. This is generally done by requiring a locally obtained library card. By rights you need to check with your local library and convince them to offer eBooks. This is where the tax money you paid was spent. You can't expect tax money spent in another state or even another county to be used by you for free.
Dale