[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[Tom Keays]

Hi Dan,

> > It isn't so much the wanting to carry them. The fact that I _can_ is
> > just a bonus. It is the notion of e-book reader as a library.
>
> To quote a slogan used in a number of support groups for those
> recovering from various addictions and related issues:
>
> Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

True. Can't argue with you there. However, I'll never have to make a
desert island choice as long as the batteries hold out. ;-)

>                   But of the wall of books at home, how many,
> other than reference books, do you read/use more than once?

Well. Actually. The print books I own are the ones I read or intend to
read more than once. For the first reading, I have customarily
borrowed them from the library. If I like them well enough to read it
again, I buy it.

NYPL has an e-book lending program, and I've used it. But, so far, I
haven't found that libraries are (yet) in a position to be a supplier
of first-read e-books. I either get them from Project Gutenberg,
Internet Archive, etc. (and generally have to do some work to convert
them so my Palm can work with them) or buy them.

Tom