The Shaler Library is letting Phil Breidenbach, 54, of Glenshaw PA and a handful of other patrons experiment with an Amazon Kindle, a hand-held device for reading online books. Shaler will be the first local library to lend such gadgets to the general public when it introduces them during National Library Week in mid-April.
“If books move to a format that doesn’t take up space, that will free up libraries to do other things,” said Marilyn Jenkins, executive director of the Allegheny County Library Association, a group of suburban libraries, including Shaler. Story from Pittsburgh Live.
This is pretty neet the
This is pretty neet the South Huntington Public Library on Long island did something like this with audio books and I-pods with good results.