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BRIDGET WHELAN

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Tuesday 24 May 2011

Your library book is counting down...10, 9, 8

 Amazon have found a way of getting ebooks into libraries. Apparently they have developed a library version that can be checked out like any other book, downloaded and read through the Kindle or any of Amazon's free Kindle apps. Then - and this is the clever part - the book will auto-delete on the due date unless it has been renewed.
Suddenly have a vision of the credits to the old Mission Impossible TV series when the tape self destructed after the message was delivered. It would be nice of if library ebooks could be as dramatic....

2 comments:

MorningAJ said...

But in their typically restrictive practice way they will have prevented any other kind of e-book from being available through libraries.
DOWN WITH KINDLE - support a better e-reader!

BRIDGET said...

Are you an ebook convert? And which one would you recommend? Brother in law very happy with his sony....