Sentences with phrase «library ebook experience»

Despite recent gains in access to content, today's library eBook experience is still inadequate to support robust reading.

This study highlights the continuing need to improve the library eBook experience, not only from apps but from our catalogs, using APIs to provide as few clicks and the most direct experience from the library's site as possible, so that all our readers can get content as easily as possible.

This app promises to revolutionize the library eBook experience.

Not exact matches

Whether it is sharing our eBooks or audiobooks together or watching TV shows and movies, hoopla offers a range of family content and an experience that can be enjoyed across screens — all with a library card.»

Today the Axis 360 platform now allows library patrons to have access to all library materials from the online catalog — whether physical or digital — and creates a convenient experience for borrowing and enjoying ebooks and digital audiobooks in the patron's favorite reading apps and on their device of choice.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

With a national sales and support team representing over 100 years of combined experience, Sebco provides library bound print books and ebooks to public libraries and school libraries throughout the country.

Anybody out there who does have firsthand experience running ADE on Linux, or who is aware of any Linux - based solutions for checking out ebooks from libraries, do speak up!

The Kobo Aura ONE features a 7.8 inch HD Carta E Ink touchscreen; 8 GB of on - board memory to hold up to 6,000 eBooks; ComfortLight PRO technology to reduce blue - light exposure and protect eyes for the best nighttime reading experience; built - in, one - touch OverDrive library lending access; and waterproof HZO Protection ™.

Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every other harebrained ebook startup with shoddily formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.

«When it comes to eBooks, the digital experience is just as important as the content and, in addition to assembling a deep library of titles, we have made a significant investment in creating a dynamic eBook experience that reflects the love of the page.»

This is sort of a big deal because KoReader brings a whole lot to the party... like 2 column landscape, night mode, Kobo's * complete * control over the ebook experience (as you say in the video) within KoReader, * very * easy ebook organization (KoReader understands folders so organizing a library is trivial) AND a * much * better PDF reader with text reflow.

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a back - end platform with store, a cloud based personal library storage and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

ReadersFirst has advocated for a better experience for library users in accessing all of a library's offerings, including physical materials, eBooks and digital audiobooks, databases, programs, and more.

Our experience suggests that library eBook readers tend to be proud of what they read and are more likely to share their lists on social media than to hide anything.

While all of this comes included in the new eBook App, the other good thing with eBook is that it makes sure the library along with all the bookmarks of a user to be automatically coordinated with the rest of the applications, thus making the Kobo e-reader a quality experience for all users who won't ever have to face any glitch with their reading on any device enabled by Kobo.

«With Axis 360, libraries know they are providing all their patrons the best and most options to access and experience ebooks.»

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a back - end platform with store, personal library storage and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

She went on to say «while eBooks are experiencing good solid double digit growth in libraries and schools, growth in audiobook lending is outpacing eBook lending with a 28 % growth rate year over year.

«There has been a strong eBook demand from library patrons and as we break new ground in mobile access and patron reach across North America, we will continue to advance our best - of - breed technology, while transforming the library experience with mobile access to the latest movies, TV shows, documentaries, educational videos and now eBooks,» said Jankowski.

Libraries have reasons to be optimistic about the ebook future, though this optimism is tempered by warnings to keep the pressure on publishers, vendors, and ourselves to produce a coherent user experience.

I'm on the Board of Directors of Library Renewal, a group dedicated to finding ways to make the ebook experience a good one for libraries, publishers, and authors.

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a cloud based back - end platform with store, a personal library and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

Your overall reading experience with ebooks checked out from the library should work, as long as you have a Linux e-reading app.

The second, addressed here, is that the products currently offered by e-content distributors (the middlemen from whom libraries buy ebooks) create a fragmented, disjointed, and cumbersome user experience.

«We're excited to be once again improving the ebook experience for even more library users.»

«With the addition of Kobo's tremendous eBook library, Walmart has shown its commitment to offer its customers not only a top - rated device, but also extensive content making it easier than ever to enjoy the eReading experience,» said Todd Humphrey, executive vice president of business development, Kobo.

Designed with a new concept of reading ebook on the PC, Martview tries very hard to create an enjoyable and comfortable reading experience in this new era of digital reading with thousands of free ebooks and magazines in their library.

Well, we are quite sure that all the users of the e-reading device must have experienced the different range of eBooks under the vast kindle library.

It's a horrible experience and many people turn away from using library eBooks at all because of it.

If there's a problem, it's that the ebook platform market is fragmented — Bloomsbury's library includes only Bloomsbury's titles while Exact Editions rival Overdrive carries Penguin, Random House, Hachette Livre and HarperCollins — and, though text can be printed, the experience of reading a book in a web browser is pretty unsatisfying if it's a novel you're reading.

Listen to best sellers: • The Girl on the Train • Truly, Madly, Guilty • The Power of Habit • Harry Potter • The Martian • A Man Called Ove • Homegoing • The Gene • When Breath Becomes Air • End of Watch A wide range of popular categories like: • Crime and Thrillers • Science Fiction • Fantasy • Romance • Classics • Novels • Mystery • Horror • Self - development • Mindfulness and meditation • Business • Children's books Features designed for the audiobook listener: • Chapter navigation • Listen over wifi, save on data • Download to your device for offline listening • Create clips of favorite passages and share with friends and on social media • Send any book in your library to your friends - their first book is on us • Bookmarking • Sleep mode, dark or light theme, variable narration speed, button - free mode and more • Control your listening experience with Cortana voice commands and button - free mode • Compatible with thousands of ebooks from Amazon - switch seamlessly between listening to your audiobooks and reading on your Kindle with Whispersync for Voice.

And to make the e-reading experience amazing, Kindle also renders its classic collection of ebooks which you can easily get it from the Kindle library store.

By that we mean that although its Store offers an excellent experience and has every book we wanted to get our hands on, as we have previously owned Kindle devices before our existing DRM «ed eBook library is locked to Amazon's ecosystem.

Houghton also said that the ebook title discovery process is constrained by not directing patrons to bestsellers, where waiting periods will give them a negative experience, and by situations where due to changing availability, the library owns the earlier volumes of a series in ebook form, but not the most recent.

Frustrating experiences can push patrons away and can have a lasting impact on their perception of library ebooks.

Full versions of this report are available for purchase, focused on public, academic, or school libraries and complete with detailed data broken down by size of library and budget, comparison of 2011 and 2010 data, and hundreds of comments from librarians about their experiences with ebooks:

I'm not experienced with iBooks, but I did recently load my entire library of Google ebooks onto a Kobo through Adobe Digital Editions.

Even as anxious publishers are hoping to increase friction in the ebook lending experience, librarians have been clamoring for vendors of integrated library systems (ILS) to make e-lending a unified, sleek experience.

Rather than navigating their patrons away from the library's web presence to Balkanized, often commercial, third - party platforms, each with a different discovery and delivery experience, librarians have been demanding a single, easy - to - use, easy - to - search platform — an integration of the ILS with ebook vendor platforms.

The Reader application not only gives you access to your Reader library though, it also offers another ebook reading experience on iOS devices.

«Our global customers expect to get the best digital book reading experience and we're concentrated on delivering that by investing in Sony's award - winning design and original digital reading enhancements, such as eBook library borrowing and the only full touch - screen on the market.»

Carla Sarratt, an indie author and Virtual Services Librarian at New Hanover County Public Library (NHCPL), recalls her first - hand experience of the challenges that the survey sites — which she has faced as both an author and a librarian — of getting self - published ebooks into libraries.

Ultimately I want to see libraries offering a seamless, single signon experience for their users to borrow ebooks online.

Based on personal experience, a certain number of people find reading books on a computer screen to be awkward so even if a user does find the eBook in the library catalogue, he or she may not wish to use it.