Everything's convertible...
=- Alan
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joel Weishaus wrote:
> The piece reads like they're made for Kindle only. My ignorance.
>
> Joel
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> Subject: Re: [WDL] Libraries and kindle
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>> 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!
>>
>> /:b
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>> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joel Weishaus wrote:
>>
>>> 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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