Sentences with phrase «borrowed e-books»

At the end of 2011, compatibility with the patron's e-reader was not the most prominent problem among those who borrowed e-books from a public library in the past 12 months; about one in five e-book borrowers (18 %) said they had wanted to borrow a particular e-book from their public library and found that it was not compatible with their e-book reading device.

How many people borrowed e-books from libraries in the past year?

Adobe gives you the option of activating Digital Editions anonymously, but that's only useful if you'll be reading borrowed e-books exclusively on that computer.

Among those who borrowed e-books from a public library in 2011, almost two - thirds say the selection at their library is «good» (32 %), «very good» (18 %), or «excellent» (16 %).

Netflix - style video streaming is just one of the many perks included in the company's $ 99 - per - year Prime service, which also comes with music streaming, one free borrowed e-book per month, and, of course, free two - day shipping.

Overdrive is an app that lets you borrow e-books from the library.

On the e-book side, Amazon needed to boost the number of titles in their Kindle Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow e-books for free — the theory being that the Kindle Lending Library is only as valuable as the number of titles available to borrow.

The essence of this service is to utilize Demand - Driven Acquisition that will allow libraries to display thousands of e-book titles and only pay when users borrow the e-book.

One of the big downsides about the Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2 is that you can not borrow e-books from the public library right on the device.

You can borrow e-books from many public libraries in the United States, but the process is clunky — because it entails using a system provided by a third party, Overdrive — and you can't read them on a Kindle device or any of the Kindle apps.

Some of the advantages of smartphone reading are common to all e-books: The ability to store many titles in a single device, to borrow e-books from the library without worrying about returning them on time and to get the book you want in an instant.

Models especially Kindles and Nook accept formats with DRM (digital rights management provisions too so allowing you to borrow e-books from libraries.

You don't go to Amazon to borrow e-books, so I don't see the point.

According to the same data, 36 % of e-reading Russians borrow e-books from friends, and a mere 15 % buy digital copies on «specialized web sites.»

Borrowing an e-book involves a ridiculous number of steps: You must create a free Adobe account, download Adobe software onto your computer, start an account with your local library, connect up those two accounts, and finally sideload the books onto the e-reader via USB.

«If people use the Kindle Lending Library I'd hope they would answer «yes» to our question of whehter they have borrowed an e-book from a library,» he said.

Then there's the problem of complexity: borrowing e-books from the library can be time - consuming and frustrating.

Parents can buy Kindle books from Amazon, which today offers over 250,000 titles, or they can borrow e-books from their public library to use with the device.

Users sign into the service through Facebook and can quickly upload e-book files to create a digital bookshelf or borrow e-books from their contacts» bookshelves.

It also supports borrowing e-books from libraries.

Does the OverDrive Media Console app work on this device for borrowing e-books from public libraries?

If you are thinking about buying the new e-reader from Barnes and Noble and borrowing e-books from your local library, I would recommend against it.

Likely one of the most compelling reasons to buy this is due to the customized Overdrive app, that will allow people to borrow e-books from the library and read them right on their Kobo.

Amazon has their own proprietary e-book format, which makes their entire line of e-readers not very viable if you want to borrow e-book from the library or shop around online for deals.

If you like to borrow e-books from the library, you can easily install the Overdrive app.

It is important to note if you have never borrowed an e-book from your local library you need to have a library card and a PIN number.

«Some 12 % of Americans ages 16 and older who read e-books say they have borrowed an e-book from a library in the past year.

Besides, with my tight budget, I'm all for borrowing e-books!

2 - day shipping + streaming movies / TV shows + borrowing e-books for ~ $ 6.50 / month -LRB-- $ 11.99 / month for Netflix) = a package deal I can believe in (and actually save money by doing)

What's more, you can virtually borrow e-books from the public library and in Barnes & Noble's case, lend some e-books to a friend, albeit under stringent restrictions.

«Borrowing an e-book is overwhelming sometimes, and the way OverDrive works is complex for some people to get onto their devices, whatever those might be,» she said.

I really want to be able to borrow e-books easily from my Canadian library.

Whenever a patron borrows an e-book, they often have to download a specific app that will let them read it.

There is a large segment of library patrons that borrow e-books from their local branch.

Whenever a patron borrows an e-book from the local library, they have the option to read it within a dedicated app on their smartphone or tablet, or their favorite browser.

I now buy some budget books and borrow e-books from the library.

Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight Plus owners are having a strange error when trying to borrow e-books via Overdrive.

This will allow people who like to borrow e-books from the library to be able to do it right on their e-Reader.

Those who use libraries are pretty heavy readers, but most are not aware they can borrow e-books.

In our national survey, we also asked people who do not borrow e-books, including those who do not read them in general, whether they would be interested in certain resources at their local public library.

Finally, others wrote that borrowing e-books inspired them to use their library more for other services.

This report also contains the voices and insights of an online panel of library patrons ages 16 - 29 who borrow e-books, fielded in the spring of 2012.

SESNOI have an email here from Winifred, who says, «My complaint with loaning,» I assume she means borrowing e-books, «is that it is not seamless.

As more book buyers have bought e-readers like the Nook and the Kindle, they have also discovered the ease of borrowing e-books from their local libraries — a transaction that doesn't even require a visit to a library, since e-books can be downloaded remotely.

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.

A high school - aged rural respondent, for instance, wrote that since she started borrowing e-books, «I tend to go to the physical branch less often because if I can borrow a book in digital format I can start reading it faster.»

Under the program, library patrons can borrow e-books on e-readers and other compatible devices.

GREENFIELDSo what that suggests is that people who borrow e-books also buy e-books.

GREENFIELDWell, the study, I believe, actually said that among people who do borrow e-books, 41 percent purchased the last e-book they read.

Many of our online panelists said that they used their library's website much more often since they started borrowing e-books, but were split on how their in - person visits to the library's physical branch have been affected.