07-29-2002, 08:00 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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E-books find their way to Swedish libraries
http://www.folkbibliotek.lund.se/
I heard a while back ago from one of our readers, Timmy Ljung, that some Swedish libraries are beginning to carry e-books. A typical borrowing period is seven to twenty one days, and then the e-book is no longer readable. Quite a few Swedish novels and children's books are available in MobiPocket format. Some one hundred English books are available through netLibrary.
Is this ever going to become a widely used way of borrowing books at the library?
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07-29-2002, 08:28 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 140
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It would be nice.
I find e-books convenient, cheap and they do their bit for the trees  so the sooner we can get everything onto e-books, the better (though I don't like the way some on-line retailers charge a full whack for the book when the production costs are clearly less what with no need for a printing press an' all).
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07-29-2002, 03:50 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 116
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My library has a couple of Rocket E-Book readers. If you have a library card, you are allowed to borrow them for 2 week periods. Also, you can have the librarian load up to something like 10 titles onto the device. I was pretty surprised when I heard about this. I decided to borrow one just to see what the device was like. I found it to be pretty big and bulky but it did what it was supposed to do and was built very solid.
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08-01-2002, 12:48 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 43
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Re: E-books find their way to Swedish libraries
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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
http://www.folkbibliotek.lund.se/
Is this ever going to become a widely used way of borrowing books at the library?
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I think so! Who has the time to go to the library anymore. The convenience of downloading the book and start reading instantly is unbeatable.
However, I guess I miss the MS Reader format of the books.
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