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MobileRead seems, to me, skewed to fiction. Nothing wrong with that. I've been reading a lot of fiction lately. But the largest part of most good public libraries consists of a well-chosen collection of non-fiction. When I go to the library, there is a good chance it is for a specific non-fiction topic I want to learn about. Non-fiction library collections also support the learning objective of local middle and high schools.
Amazon, not to mention Overdrive, lacks a library-quality non-fiction collection. So even if eInk reader prices get close to zero, reading on a device still won't, for an unknown number of years to come, match what I get from a good library.
tubemonkey is not going to the only eReading patron who calls for closing library branches. And indifference from people who no longer visit libraries may be a bigger problem. I would not not want to be a public library director over the next ten or twenty years.
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