Ever sick of just renting books at the library? Well now you can check out books that aren’t books! The possibilities are endless.
Multnomah County Library has paired up with Amazon.com to offer Kindle for Libraries, a system that lets library patrons electronically check out an e-book to read on their Kindle. Just like a regular library book, readers must ‘return’ — read: electronic access denied —the e-book by a certain time. It’s pretty snazzy. Here’s the Library2Go website where you can virtually browse. Granted, you need an Amazon account, library card and a Kindle (unless you dig reading books your your desktop), but the step further illustrates the progressiveness of our local branch.
Kindle first kicked-off its library e-rental biz in April, and it’s caught on quickly. However, it’s still on the fence as to whether it will start offering actual Kindles for library patrons to check out.
“electronic access denied” Yeah, because that worked so well for other sectors like the music industry.
I need a “library car” and should dig reading books my my computer? Yes, us an 11,000 other libraries across the country, not to mention every library in Washington county. Bang up journalism here.
library car? me no reedie and even I know thats not write
Dear Lord… the typos are endless:
“Well now you can check out books on that aren’t books!”
“Kindle first kicked-off it’s library e-rental biz in April…”
Slow down and proof read, young Alex.
If you go to the library and tell a staff member you want to “rent” a book, they’ll do their best not to look at you as if you’re an idiot.
@Alex, are you aware whether or not this would work for the Kindle app on other devices?
Compatible with all Kindle readers, and Kindle software running on iPhone, Android, and your PC.
@Fruit Cup, bokuno said it best.
Wow, thanks. That’s actually… useful.