Enjoyed having a look around in the discovery exercise sites for e-books and audio e-books online --ie, Netlibrary, Overdrive and World e-bookfair.
Recently I have been assisting our library's outreach / home service co-ordinator.
The sites explored above have enormous potential to assist clients of the library home service, at least in theory.
The difficulty I can see surrounding this , is the "general" computer illiteracy and feelings of irrelevance felt by our elderly library clients ( despite having witnessed wonderful exceptions of elderly library clients who have embraced computers) .
Unfortunately I don't have the answers, but if this problem could be somehow improved, what a terrific resource for such a group of library users.
Conversely, reading from an actual, physical book still holds a greater appeal than reading from a screen for many library users.
Ciao,
Robert
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