For this I chose Overdrive. I've been lax in messing around with it and that seems to be the one most asked about by patrons.
I chose to look for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and found quite a few types including a graphic novel and the radio show.
Downloading the book itself is easy and a PDF file can be read on pretty much anything. I can really see a library revolutionized by digital books.
I have a dream and that dream is that some day a patron can walk into the lobby of a library, plug their electronic device into a terminal and download whatever item they are looking for in the entire world and walk out. Obviously they could still request a physical copy from the stacks if they'd like.
The only thing really stopping this is the limit of copies that can be checked out. It's a file, why is it limited?
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It's limited because we pay for each file from our vendor. Wouldn't it be nice if they recognized that it didn't have to be that way? One of these days these things should work a lot better!
Deirdre
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