http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2989/sony-reader-works-with-ebooks-and-libraries-sort-of/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2989/sony-reader-works-with-ebooks-and-libraries-sort-of/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:22:18 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/?p=2989 The new Sony Reader, the biggest competition to the Kindle, is supposedly going to be able to check out digital books from libraries that use the Overdrive service. I guess this begs the obvious question: why go to the library for this service at all? I guess that Overdrive just bulk offers the checkoutability service to libraries (hello restrictive DRM!) which is something but man I just wish their service were better and easier to use.

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