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Originally Posted by chrisarippel
I am a librarian.
I would like to know how starting to read eBooks on an eReader, smartphone or laptop/computer has changed your borrowing habits from the library. And see whether libraries could provide eBook readers who don't use the library with something they want.
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I frequently use the library to check out both ebooks and hardcopy books; whichever has the book I want available. I tend to check from the library (ebook and hardcopy) bestselling fiction, recent (as in still in copyright including new midlist) fiction (especially genre fiction) and nonfiction. I would check independent e-book/POD books from the library too, but I didn't have room for that in the poll as I had exhausted my 3 choices. I am a heavy library user.
I think having an e-reader has shifted some of my borrowing activity from hardcopy to e-copy, as the collections are different and I can take advantage of more variety of titles--it's rare for me to keep 40 hardcopy books out of the library anymore.
And one thing I don't have to guess--I looked in my computer Digital Editions folder and since Nov. 2009 when I started I have checked out nearly 300 e-books. (there are more than 300 books in that folder but a few of them are purchases)