Being about a 30 second walk away from our local library, my wife and I are regular patrons. We take a lot of books out of that place.
This is one reason why, despite my insatiable gadget lust, we have not picked up a Kindle as of yet – it hasn’t supported taking books out of the library.
Recently, in the United States at least, this has changed, and you can now borrow books on your Kindle from your local library.
Here is how it works, according to their site:
Visit the website of a U.S. library that offers digital services from OverDrive.
Check out a Kindle book (using a valid library card).
Click on “Get for Kindle” and then sign in to your Amazon.com account to have the book delivered to your Kindle device or reading app.Note: Public library books can be sent wirelessly to Kindle devices via an active Wi-Fi connection or transferred via USB.
Neil over at Paperless Today has a good writeup of how he uses it.
All this doesn’t help me since I don’t live in the US, but hopefully it will come to Canada soon. Do you use your Kindle to read library books? How do you like the experience?
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