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...

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