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[Mary H. White]

Our small library (75,000 volumes) purchased three Amazon Kindles in October
2008 and our program has been very successful.  Our patrons love them and
there's a very long waiting list (65 holds).  Things you might be interested
in:

 

.         We lend them for one week, no renewals.

.         We have 13 titles loaded onto each Kindle -- some best sellers,
some local authors, some book discussion titles.

.         Our intent is to expose patrons to this newer technology, versus
supplying all their reading desires in this format.  There have been no
complaints about the limited number of titles.

.         Each Amazon account can support up to six Kindles.  You can load
one title (usually costing $10) onto all six Kindles and it's still only
costing you $10.

.         We checked with Kindle Support before doing this to make certain
we were legal.  I see no difference between lending a title purchased from
Amazon and loaded onto a Kindle and a paper copy of the same title purchased
from Amazon.  Lending is lending.  We are not selling, renting, etc.

.         Wireless access is via Sprint, so you might want to check Sprint's
coverage.

.         We place the Kindles in a padded camera bag that's too big to fit
into the book drops.  We don't want them crushed.

.         We have had no problems, no complaints.

 

I highly recommend that more libraries try this and I wish all of us would
work to convince Amazon they should give each public library a Kindle for
free.  It would be their best marketing ever.

 

Feel free to contact me if you have questions. 

 

Mary H. White, Director

Howe Library

13 South Street

Hanover, NH  03755

 

603.640.3251

howelibrary.org

 

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