I have several apps on my Ipad, not anywhere near the 41 that the average person apparently has. If I had a really smart phone I would probably have a few more but I seldom travel with my Ipad and maybe that's one reason. In any case, I do have Overdrive Media Console and use it primarily for ebooks. This is very handy unless the book I want is out and I stress OUT because I have been told that there is only 1 electronic copy of each book in NB. Still, I can always place a hold and wait for the email. I also like the ease of returning an ebook, something we demonstrate to our patrons regularly. Yeaaa, no fines. Ever.
I also have a Kobo Glo which I find to easier to move around than my Ipad (also loss prevention). I have an old-fashioned way to download books to it, not wirelessly, but downloading to the Digital Editions on my old desktop computer and hooking up my Kobo. The Glo is particularly convenient at 3AM because it also acts as a flashlight! (how do I know this) In any case the apps we've been looking at this week make me realize that reading an actual paper book seem a little retro. And it makes me a little sad. When I see small children reading their stories on a tablet and not an actual picture book I realize that we've lost something important and where do we go from here?
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