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If only there were public institutions where you could get books (and eBooks!) for free...

I can't agree with this more, especially when it comes to ebooks. I've been mightily disappointed in the way public libraries have adopted Overdrive, which is - and this burns me - technology put in place to make consuming ebooks more difficult, and to charge libraries exorbitant fees at the same time.

I'd love to see homebrew projects like this one be successful: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24567880/douglas-county-mo...

http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/sep13/Sendze_Van-Court--Own-...

I'll second this.

I used to live in Arlington, Virginia, and while getting overdrive set up was a nightmare, actually checking books out was really easy.

I now live in New York, and frankly the New York Public Library's process for checking out e-books is so confusing that I can't figure out how to use it most of the time. It's just a better use of my time to just go ahead and buy the damn thing.

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