https://techcitement.com get excited Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:23:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://techcitement.com/hardware/tablet/changing-the-guard-libraries-in-the-21st-century/ https://techcitement.com/hardware/tablet/changing-the-guard-libraries-in-the-21st-century/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:28:39 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=15878

  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 […]]]> https://techcitement.com/hardware/tablet/changing-the-guard-libraries-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 1 https://techcitement.com/hardware/amazon-launches-kindle-owners-lending-library-with-22-catches/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:35:58 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=5463

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 […]]]> https://techcitement.com/software/google-causes-loss-of-books-turns-society-into-man-eating-whales/ https://techcitement.com/software/google-causes-loss-of-books-turns-society-into-man-eating-whales/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:52:17 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=4524

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”, […]]]> https://techcitement.com/software/google-causes-loss-of-books-turns-society-into-man-eating-whales/feed/ 3