eBook

Following the instructions of the excercise, I went to www.gutenberg.org for ebook. It is a great site for free ebook downloading. However, I don't think its collection is wide enough. I have downloaded "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English" and " Amusement in Mathematics" from the top 100 downloads. It is just like downloading an article or a document from any site in the internet. it is easy and convenient. The problem is we don't have a eBook reading device like "Kindle" which is sold for US$399 by Amazon. This digital book reader is rather too expensive.

I imagine if all the books are digitised in future, the library in future generations will have no books on the shelve. What customer will do is bringing a book reader to the library to download a book or books. The ebooks will automatically be erased after the due date to protect the copyright. It is fascinating, isn't it?