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Open Library
Sep. 11th, 2019 11:21 amI've been enjoying diving into Open Library, which lets you read scanned-in paper books from all over. This works best on a tablet for me, but even the cruddy browser on my aging Kindle Fire is capable of handling the book stream. It does require being online.
Like a lot of libraries, there are waiting lists for the more popular titles, and in some cases the scans are imperfect (first letter cut off on the edge of some pages, and very occasionally a few pages missing), but for frictionless library checkouts it can't be beat; the e-book section of my local public library is very small and hard to use in comparison, though the catalog search is a little easier to do once you get through the login hoops.
Like a lot of libraries, there are waiting lists for the more popular titles, and in some cases the scans are imperfect (first letter cut off on the edge of some pages, and very occasionally a few pages missing), but for frictionless library checkouts it can't be beat; the e-book section of my local public library is very small and hard to use in comparison, though the catalog search is a little easier to do once you get through the login hoops.
