[DawnFalcon]

I don't see it.

Rather, I can see local schools ditching their stacks to a central location, I know some UK schools have asked the local libraries to do this allready, and to extend library stack borrowing to the kids (with teacher permission) as-necessary, and I agree this makes total sense - especially when combined with access from the school PC's to JANET and papers and so on from there, again as-necessary.

(How do I know? The selective high school I went to did it last year. I think I was one of only three people in our year who used the stacks even a decade ago.)

But...the entire coffee shop thing stinks to high heaven, and replacing a library entirely with a limited number of e-ink only devices? It's not like they gave every student a classmate PC or something...