[Web4lib] Kindle lending

[Robert Balliot]

But, if you own the *book* where is the problem?  In fact, marginalia by
famous folks make common works more valuable to collectors.

I was perusing circulating PS in the Rockefeller Library at Brown U. and
came across a book (I don't recall the title) that had been owned by Moses
Brown <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Brown_(Providence)>. He had made
notes (marginalia) and you could experience his use, his interpretation, his
feelings for the book.  It was moved to special collections to preserve not
the work, but the history.

Will dog-eared pages in Kindles be the historic legacy of famous folks in
the future?
R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Phalbe Henriksen
<phenriksen at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> And I looked at a "real" (as opposed to an "app") Nook last Thursday, and
> it doesn't show a dog-eared page.
>
> I wonder if the code for a small "dog-ear" is less cumbersome than any
> other kind of "bookmark"? How about a thin vertical line with
>
> N
> o
> o
> k
>
> written in it?
>
> Or how about letting different people using the device put their own names
> on it?
>
> P
> h
> a
> l
> b
> e
>
> ?
>
> Does that take up more space than a dog-eared corner?
>
> Phalbe Henriksen ~ adding new bracketed comment to original msg
>
>
>
> Hmm,
> The Ipad Kindle ap puts a little bookmark on the corner. I just thought to
> look.
> Melinda Harvey
> _________________
>
>
> Folks, I had to buy a new car, and it needed a smartphone to make
> everything in the car be available to me, so I ditched my old trusty
> flip phone and bought a Droid X. [And sorta regret it. My old flip phone
> did everything I *needed* it to do -- make phone calls.]
>
>
> I downloaded both Kindle's and Nook's apps, since we're working towards
> circulating them in the library. Both machines show a bookmark as a
> turned down corner of a page.
>
> We librarians have been trying for over a hundred years to convince
> people NOT to turn down those corners.
>
> Does anyone see any reason why Amazon and Barnes & Noble chose a
> librarian's anathema to mark a page? I plan to write them letters.
>
> pH
>
>
>
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