Kindle Review / Kindle 2 Review / BooksPosted on June 16, 2009 by switch11
List of libraries that are lending ... Kindles and setting a great precedent. [snip]
Libraries Lending ... Kindles
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- North Carolina State University Library has 18 Kindles, 12 Kindle 2s, 2 Sony Readers, and blogs regularly about them. [snip]
- Mary White, Director of Howe Library in Hanover, NH - The Kindle Library Loaning Page. Lending out Kindles since Jan 14th, 2009.
- The CRISS Library at the University of Nebraska Omaha has 9 Kindles for lending. [snip].
- Sparta Public Library in Sparta, NJ have 2 Kindles for lending.
- LaCrosse Public Library lends out 1 Kindle.
- Rancho Mirage Public Library lends out Kindles, although its unclear ... .
- Texas A&M University Libraries have 18 Kindles ...
- University Libraries staff at Texas A&M have been lending 18 of the compact devices for four months.
- Sawyer Library at Suffolk University has acquired 4 Kindle 2s ... .
- River Forest Public Library in River Forest, Illinois has a Kindle lending program (5 Kindles). [snip].
- The Gardner-Harvey Library of Miami University Middletown lends out Kindles.
- The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library at Bowdoin University has started lending out 4 Kindles and 1 Sony.
- Frank L. Weyenberg Library of Mequon lends out 3 Kindles.
- Palm Beach Community College lend out a Kindle and [has] a blog
- Madison High School Library received a Kindle 2 via a grant ... .
- Jackson Library at Stanford has a Kindle you can test drive ....
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Does your library lend out a kindle? Do leave a comment so we can add your library to the list.
There is also a Facebook Group of organizations and libraries lending Kindles
EBook Readers in Libraries
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14473239090]
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[http://ireaderreview.com/2009/06/16/libraries-lending-kindle/]
what's the different between the kindle and the sony reader?
ReplyDeletecould you perhaps include just half the list and not the whole list?
ReplyDeletethanks, the blogger at ireaderreview
abhi
Sawyer Library at Suffolk University has 6 Kindles, not 4, as stated in the linked news item.
ReplyDeleteGlencoe Public Library in Glencoe, IL has started circulating a Kindle 1 and a Kindle 2.
ReplyDeleteSpaulding High School Library has 40 Kindles available for loan. Go to https://sites.google.com/site/spauldingkindleproject/ for more information.
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