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Originally Posted by Tome Keeper
Might be worth asking the librarians about the choice to provide the readers and not the books. I'm not sure how it would work either, at least for the Kindle. Do people register and de-register time and time again? Can anyone borrow them? Are they pre-loaded with books?
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I'll ask about the decision next time I'm at the library.
As for your questions:
1) You don't have to register the devices when you check them out. You just go through the normal checkout process.
2) Anyone with a library card can borrow them.
3) Yes, they come pre-loaded with books.
Aside from being an odd way of doing it, I think the library is putting the devices through a lot of risk. Aside from the possibility of people just plain
keeping the devices, there's the damage issue. Patrons are charged $5/day that the devices are overdue to return, and there's a $25 fee if you drop the device in the book drop, rather than returning it to the circulation librarian. And of course, if, for any reason, the device doesn't make it back to them at all, you bought it.