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Old 05-01-2011, 11:20 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
My library doesnt' check out eReaders as far as I know but they have 1261 ePubs available (1736 total, so I guess almost 500 are checked out). That doesn't count their PDFs (I don't like reading PDFs on my Kobo) or ePubs that are not available. 710 of the available ones are fiction. Not bad for suburban Louisiana.

Anyway, they rent the readers but not the eBooks? That seems a little ridiculus. It would make sense if they had done away with paperbooks and offered eBooks but wanted to still serve patrons w/o their own readers but, IMHO, we are a long way for where a library could/should do that.
I kind of see libraries as the last holdout for paper books. I think the B&M stores will go, and then the libraries will be left. Well, them and maybe used bookstores.

I think that's at least a decade away, though.
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