Monday, June 28, 2004
Ohio Library Consortium Loans eBooks
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "CONTENT" @ 01:00 PM
http://www.rimroad.com/articles/2004/5/2004-5-24-Ohio-Library-Consortium.html
"[The] southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium, a consortium of 67 Ohio public libraries, has launched a new online service for its library members and their patrons , enabling the browsing and check out of eBooks from homes, offices and schools. So even in the heart of rural Ohio, where horse-drawn carriages and tractors share the road with cars, library patrons are downloading eBooks directly to their PCs and PDAs using the Internet."
It appears they are using Adobe Reader and MobiPocket Reader formats. It requires either activation for Adobe, which doesn't work on the Pocket PC anyway, or registering MobiPocket's PID. You can have up to 10 ebooks out at once and they generally "expire" in 21 days, whereupon you can go back and check it out again unless someone else checks it out before you have a chance.
Oh yeah, you have to be a resident of Ohio with a valid library card. Sorry. The rest of Earth is excluded. :? Good to see Ohio taking this step though. :)
"[The] southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium, a consortium of 67 Ohio public libraries, has launched a new online service for its library members and their patrons , enabling the browsing and check out of eBooks from homes, offices and schools. So even in the heart of rural Ohio, where horse-drawn carriages and tractors share the road with cars, library patrons are downloading eBooks directly to their PCs and PDAs using the Internet."
It appears they are using Adobe Reader and MobiPocket Reader formats. It requires either activation for Adobe, which doesn't work on the Pocket PC anyway, or registering MobiPocket's PID. You can have up to 10 ebooks out at once and they generally "expire" in 21 days, whereupon you can go back and check it out again unless someone else checks it out before you have a chance.
Oh yeah, you have to be a resident of Ohio with a valid library card. Sorry. The rest of Earth is excluded. :? Good to see Ohio taking this step though. :)
