Others borrow e-books directly from a friend (40 %).
Not exact matches
While the Nook and Sony e-readers allow open
e-book library
borrowing, Ervin said she and
other librarians are hopeful that Kindles will soon expand beyond letting users
borrow only Kindle books from libraries.
Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the
e-book market longer than anyone
other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive
e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy
e-books for the kindle from
other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service
borrow books and read without buying.You can also read
e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).
Ervin likes using the Nook e-reader, sold by Barnes & Noble, which works with OverDrive software offered by her library and
others in the Boston area's Minuteman Library Network for free
e-book borrowing.
Finally,
others wrote that
borrowing e-books inspired them to use their library more for
other services.
Once at the library or on the library website, parents are more likely than
other adults to do a notable number of activities, including browse shelves,
borrow printed books, attend classes and events for children,
borrow DVDs and CDs, use computers and the internet, and
borrow e-books.
Under the program, library patrons can
borrow e-books on e-readers and
other compatible devices.
Users of the Kindle e-reader and Amazon's e-reading app for
other devices can now
borrow e-books from more than 11,000 U.S. libraries, the online retailer said Wednesday.
Your library card allows you to
borrow books,
e-books, e-audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, mobile hotspots and
other devices as available.
As with
other e-readers, you can also
borrow e-books from your local library.
That means it works with Project Gutenberg and
other Web sites that contain free
e-books, as well as electronic
borrowing from the local public library.
Libraries can be a place where students can
borrow e-books from sites like Overdrive, or
other companies that let you
borrow books.
Depending on the device, you can highlight or save selected text, view
other readers» highlights of significant passages, surf the Web, send and retrieve e-mail, directly access Wikipedia, lend
e-books to a friend,
borrow from an
e-book library, or transfer an
e-book to your PC, smartphone or
other device.
As we turn our efforts to respond to patron demand and begin buying more
e-books, and with only a small number of
e-book vendors (mostly academic) allowing for any sort of ILL, the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to
other libraries or
borrow from
other libraries.
On the
other hand, those saying that
e-books were better were disproportionately likely to be those who prefer buying
e-books to
borrowing them, to live in households earning $ 50,000 - $ 75,000, and to live in urban areas.
You can also
borrow e-books from most local libraries on the Kindle, as you can with
other e-book readers.
The
other new Penguin titles that made the NYT list, like Red Mist, are not available for
borrowing as
e-books in libraries.