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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
If I were a librarian wanting to loan ereaders, I'd be looking into buying refurbed Nooks from B&N on ebay and buying ebooks from B&N and sideloading them onto all of the Nooks. Unlike the Kindle and Adobe DRM, the B&N DRM doesn't need to go to a DRM server to unlock the books, and there's no hard limit to the number of Nooks on which the ebooks can be loaded.
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only flaw there is even if the library has a dozen Nooks they still need a dozen licenses for the books if they are all to have the same titles. On the Amazon setup all that needs done is to create the correct Amazon account then add, I think the number mentioned in this thread is correct, five different devices (could even be a given user's own device as long as it can read Kindle books, heck it could even be the user's own Kindle as long as they temporarily deregistered it from their account). Those devices can then share ALL the titles associated with that account.
I sort of like the idea of being able to register my own device with a special collection of the library then having access to the books for a period after which my device is automatically deregistered.
Of course there are issues here as well. I suspect once the Kindle API is really running full steam ahead a special library app might be possible as well. But I also suspect with the Agency thing the ability to share a title between devices registered to the same account is also in jeopardy if the publishers can gain the leverage to do so.
Still, it is an interesting idea for libraries but the overhead IT wise might be too much for most libraries.