The piece reads like they're made for Kindle only. My ignorance.
Joel
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Subject: Re: [WDL] Libraries and kindle
> at $100 or less, an ebook reader isn't a big ticket item
> (and you can read ebooks for free on an existing computer)
> -- what's at stake is the dwindling public physical meeting
> space that the library has always provided... now if only
> something similar could threaten the facade of corrupt art
> institutions!
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> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joel Weishaus wrote:
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>> So one must spend hundreds of dollars before being able to read these
>> "books" at home?
>> No matter of what profits Amazon dreams, this is not the mission of a
>> public library.
>>
>> -Joel
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Margaret Penfold
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:40 AM
>> Subject: [WDL] Libraries and kindle
>>
>>
>> It's spreading. How longer before all public libraries are completely
>> virtual?
>>
>> http://technorati.com/business/article/amazon-kindle-books-hitting-the-library/
>> Regards,
>> Margaret
>>
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