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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Gwen,
From my recollections of years ago as a New York Public Library patron, I suspect that there was probably another area with stacks and such, and the popular fiction you saw may have been the branch's holdings of "hot" 7-day books (no reserves, no renewals): latest Stephanie Plum, Grisham, etc.
I was struck by how you plan to read library e-books on devices that don't seem compatible with Overdrive (as far as I could tell).
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I was picking through old posts and re-checked this thread. I just wanted to answer this...
No, I'm not going to remove the DRM off the overdrive books. I do remove DRM from my personal ebook collection, but that's different, I paid for those! I'm reading the epub books on my laptop and I'm strongly considering a Sony as a second ereader.
I really love my Kindle. I REALLY love it. I'm sad it doesn't support epub. I'm not "angry", I know why it doesn't, I just wish it would.
At the same time I feel very strongly it's important to support libraries (and by "support" them I mean "make use of them"). With a NYC card (available to me as a New York resident) my ebook checkouts increase the numbers a tiny bit further towards "more taxpayer support of ebooks in libraries". I don't real paper books any more, but my son makes so much use of the local library he counts for both of us
. That way both libraries are made use of.
I may get a Sony or I may continue to read epub ebooks on my laptop. In the meantime I have everything set up (ADE running under Wine) and books in my checkout queue
. It is helping to save me cash, as I'm spending less at Amazon since setting this up.