[Web4lib] Kindle at Libraries

[Robert Balliot]

This part is particularly intriguing to me:

""We're doing a little something extra here," Marine continued. "Normally,
making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. But we're extending our
Whispersync technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to
Kindle books you check out from your local library. Your notes will not show
up when the next patron checks out the book. But if you check out the book
again, or subsequently buy it, your notes will be there just as you left
them, perfectly Whispersynced."

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Amazon announced they will be introducing a Kindle Program for Libraries<http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1552678&highlight=>later this year.  This
> is significant news for the Library market and quite a game-changer. How
> will this affect the Overdrive market and the future purchase of hand-held
> book readers by libraries?
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> http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/kindles-and-android-and-nooks-oh-my/
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