Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Borrowing a Kindle Book from the Library

I finally got around to trying this myself, and it works pretty good.

The library site is nowhere near as good as Amazon’s for searching, browsing, or choosing books. But it works.

In fact you get thrown to Amazon’s site at least once during the “checkout” process (which requires no money of course).

But I can say I’ve tried it, and I can show others how to use it now.

I’d like to think I could buy less e-books, because I can get books from the library now on my Kindle, and I’m not particularly interested in reading things twice. But the website has to get better first, and I have some concerns around availability – from the little I could tell it looked like a lot of the books were out – supply exceeding demand at least during the honeymoon period here. Time will tell.

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