What do the authors Dean Koontz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alan Bradley, Jodi Picoult, Kathryn Wall, Kathy Reichs, J.A. Jance and Mark Twain have in common? Our loanable Kindle eBook readers have books by these authors already loaded for your reading pleasure. Some of the books loaded are not available in print— many are short stories or novella length, including some Tempe Brennan stories from Kathy Reichs, a Flavia de Luce tale from Bradley, an Odd Thomas bit from Dean Koontz or a Ali Reynolds short from J.A. Jance. While I’m not a big fan of having only one format of a book, especially in one that you need a device to read, I did find the short stories easy to read on the Kindle.
Do I want to read a full length book on the screen? Not yet, but I can appreciate the ease of transportation of multiple books on a slim, lightweight device.
What is our main purpose of having these in our collection? Well, primarily to help with the question “would I like to read a book on a machine” as well as having some of the books that are only available this way. Most of what we have loaded on the Kindles are also available through the eBook catalog that is available to all of our patrons, but if you don’t have a tablet or a Kindle, these are not available to you, and we don’t like that! We’ve also found that some of the titles that we have downloaded onto the Kindle have holds on them in the system, meaning you might have to wait awhile before you can personally download. To keep the Kindles circulating, they can only be borrowed for a week with no renewal, but it is fun to do. I don’t like the “advertising” on the machine, and we have it locked so that you can’t download other titles that appear in the advertising, but these are minor inconveniences. So, if you’ve wondered what the buzz is about with a Kindle, or if you’d just like to read a few short stories by the authors that you enjoy, we welcome you to try out our Kindles.
For those of you that have used the library for many years, this isn’t the first machine we loaned out—years ago we had the “suitcase” VHS players that could be circulated—heavy, but boy did they go, and go and go. Finally, no one wanted to repair them, and the cost of having your own VHS player had dramatically fallen and we finally let them go.
Times change, but our desire to help out does not, and we hope that this and our other many services meet your needs.
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