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Cleveland Public Library Readies E-book Downloads
rtphokie writes "C|Net is reporting that the Cleveland Public Library is making ebooks available. Sounds like the 1000 books in the system initially will feature more than just public domain titles including 'the latest from authors such as Michael Crichton, Clive Barker and Joyce Carol Oates.'" The article also mentions that "only a limited number of each eBook will be available, and after a preset number of days, the eBook will lock out the current reader so another patron can check it out." A good time to re-read The Right to Read.
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I should warn you that you will sound like a windows newb if you keep talking like that. I dont want to flame you and this Is offtopic but here i go. mIRC is a program to access the IRC network. mIRC is also for windows. By saying its on mIRC you are basically shouting to everyone that you use windows and dont know how IRC works. I am not the type of person who wants to flame for this but you might wanna look into how the system works before some ass does flame you. Also as you learn more about the many different IRC networks you will find that it is very possible to find the right content with very little BS.
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I can't speak to who is the first, but I have checked out an eBook online 8 months ago through my local library: San Diego Public Library.
SDPL uses this company: NetLibrary.
It looks like NetLibrary provides this service for other libraries, but I'm too lazy to look for details.
Skipping the various examples of Bain , inform it , and etc, Legit e-books have been available for free, or nearly so for quite some time. My favorite being the King County, Wa library system.Mostly tech books, but then it's mostly geeks who will look for and use them at this point.
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Thats exactly how PGP was exported when the USA banned export of strong encryption.
The source was printed in a paper book, and nobody had any problem with exporting books, so the book went to norway, and was OCR'ed back into the computer.
I.A.L. (I'm a librarian). I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't, for the most part, care about the fines. They're really just intended to help encourage library patrons to return the shared resource they have borrowed. The fines do provide a little revenue, but for the most part, the administration involved with these fines makes it much less than one would think
P.S. Penn. Public and School libraries (throughb their Powerlibrary online iniative) already have e-books, although the system could use a little work.
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All of those are copyrightable, presumably also other things as typesetting and whatever, as long as it's the publishers work. If you want an edition free of copyright, you could get the actual text electronically from project Gutenberg or similar.
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Cleveland needs to get with the time... access to eBooks is NOT new. All libraries in Michigan have had access to eBooks via netLibrary from the Michigan eLibrary for over a year... and it's a MUCH larger selection than Cleveland appears to be bragging about... as usual... folks in Ohio are years behind their superiors in Michigan (even when it comes to National Titles... we win in 97... you wait till 2003.)
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Not if the kernel goes into a special graphics mode where video memory is write-only. Microsoft Windows already does something analogous for audio, not allowing unsigned drivers to play secure streams and not allowing trojan drivers (Total Recorder, What-U-Hear) to be signed unless they turn themselves off when the Secure Audio Path is open.
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