My daughter sent me
this link, knowing that I love Apple and now call San Antonio home.
A book-less library.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio's Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country's first book-less public library. Of course, there will be books -- just e-books, not physical books.
The 4,989 square-foot space will look like a modern library, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who was inspired to pursue the project after reading Walter Issacson's Steve Jobs biography, told ABC News.
Instead of aisles
and aisles of books there will be aisles and aisles of computers and
gadgets. At the start, it will have 100 e-readers available for
circulation and to take out, and then 50 e-readers for children, 50
computer stations, 25 laptops and 25 tablets on site.
Library goers will be able to take out books on any of the devices in
the library, take out one of the 50 e-readers for a period of time or
bring their own e-readers to the library and load books onto their own
devices. The library will also be partnering with e-book providers or
distributors to provide access to over 10,000 titles.
What a great country.
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