Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Better Late Than Never: Kindles and Library E-Books

I have owned a Kindle for a year and have been very frustrated that up until now Amazon has not let me borrow e-books from the public library on my Kindle. I looked enviously at those who had the Nook from Barnes and Noble and other e-readers that enable you to download library e-books. Plus, to make things even worse, my friends who have Kindles in England have been able to download e-books from their public libraries onto their Kindles for a while! Well, this is going to change soon because Amazon has finally created Kindle Library Lending using Overdrive, which is already used by public libraries for e-audio books and e-books. Here is an article that explains it all. Fantastic!