Some time back my dad was talking about this school using overdrive and some other company to digitalize their library books… than he told me that NLB uses overdrive too… that sparked me to go check out NLB's e-books…
Yeah i know they've got ebooks for quite a long time, but somehow it just never occurred to me to check them out…
I've not checked out the non-fiction books yet… but i did manage to borrow the whole dragon series of 4 books, and finish them within two days… (ok, i've read the 1st two books long before, so i didn’t re-read them..) The adobe digital readers thing was kinda slow the last time round tho… no matter how i tried i couldn’t return the books… just tried it again today and i finally managed to return the books.
The great thing about ebooks is that you don't have to spend time physically going down to the library, and carry back/carry around a thick, unwieldy book. You can just read it on your computer, your phone, or better still, the iPad. You don't even actually have to return the book manually - they will automatically be returned when the 21 days loan period is up. However there's a limited number of copies of the ebook that the library can loan out at a go though… so if you're done with the book you could just do others a kind deed and return the book - it only takes a click anyway. PLUS, you're still capped at 6 books (digital + physical combined) at any one time so if you want to borrow more books, you gotta return the old ones 1st.
Borrowed 4 Terry Brooks books just a few minutes ago… shall try and finish them… now that its on my phone too maybe i'll read on the train/bus?
ah so tired today… ><
gotta try see if they have my favorite science non-fiction books are in the list someday… I'm not really keeping my hopes up though… its easy to have story books in the e-format, but non-fictions books might be a bit rare… oh well we'll see.
EDIT: seems like there aren't any… oh wells...
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