Today, in Bexar County, home to San Antonio, Texas’s lovely second city, they’re getting ready to open the United States’s first fully electronic public library. The new system will allow patrons to download thousands of e-texts from their homes. This digital library will also have a bright, shiny new high-tech central library branch where […]
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Amazon Launches Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, With 22 Catches
First free video, now free books. Amazon has launched their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, available to Amazon Prime members, at no additional cost. Users may borrow select titles for an unlimited time, without due dates or extra fees. There are 5,000 available titles, and the selection seems reasonably wide, including titles from the New York Times […]
Google Causes Loss Of Books, Turns Society Into Man-eating Whales
By Kacey Samiee on September 20, 2011 in Culture, Entertainment, Odds And Ends, Software, Web Applications
Oh Google, come on. I have to say, I’m a bit disappointed in your behavior. I know it’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission, but I have a hard time picturing a group of Google executives sitting in a meeting and saying, “We’ll just do it, and see if they notice”, […]