1. Okay people, I'm sending an email to our ebooks team asking them to write some descriptive content for the various electronic collections we have. I have no idea what the differences are between Safari, eBooks, etc and between the two libraries. Uh, does Overdrive sound like downloadable CD music to you? I'm not a big fan of eBooks, at least not yet. I still prefer the print in my hands. Yet, I don't like using my Printer unless I must. Kinda like people who like ketchup but not tomatoes. Still, I'm pleased that we have this resource available; it would be nice to see statistics to know if our public finds it invaluable.
2. World eBook Fair. cool. I don't like the home page. Too busy. Don't know what to focus on and how to get started. So I popped over to Gutenberg. I remember when this was all text (about 15 years ago?) but still a revolution practically! Anyway, 20,000 free books in the online catalog. I really wish Gutenberg would blow the Google Book thing out of the water.... I liked reading about real life examples of what people did with ebooks.
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I too am not exactly crazy about reading a book online, but they can be hugely useful. For example, the public library has access to a database of California Mission books. When every fourth grader in San Jose wants a book on Mission Santa Clara, the ebooks are a great option!
More real life... there are audio ebooks that can be found in the library catalogs. One of my neighbors told me she was thrilled with the Pimsleur Learn-a-Language downloadable audiobooks.
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