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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Free e-book kiosk for the public libraries?</div>
  22       <div class="date"> 7th October 2011</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway the public libraries are debating with the
  24 publishing houses how to handle electronic books.  Surprisingly, the
  25 libraries seem to be willing to accept digital restriction mechanisms
  26 (DRM) on books and renting e-books with artificial scarcity from the
  27 publishing houses.  Time limited renting (2-3 years) is one proposed
  28 model, and only allowing X borrowers for each book is another.
  29 Personally I find it amazing that libraries are even considering such
  30 models.</p>
  31
  32 <p>Anyway, while reading <a href="http://boklaben.no/?p=220">part of
  33 this debate</a>, it occurred to me that someone should present a more
  34 sensible approach to the libraries, to allow its borrowers to get used
  35 to a better model.  The idea is simple:</p>
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  37 <p>Create a computer system for the libraries, either in the form of a
  38 Live DVD or a installable distribution, that provide a simple kiosk
  39 solution to hand out free e-books.  As a start, the books distributed
  40 by <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (about
  41 36,000 books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a>
  42 (1149 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The
  43 Internet Archive</a> (3,033,748 books) could be included, but any book
  44 where the copyright has expired or with a free licence could be
  45 distributed.</p>
  46
  47 <p>The computer system would make it easy to:</p>
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  49 <ul>
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  51 <li>Copy e-books into a USB stick, reading tablets, cell phones and
  52   other relevant equipment.</li>
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  54 <li>Show the books for reading on the the screen in the library.</li>
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  56 </ul>
  57
  58 <p>In addition to such kiosk solution, there should probably be a web
  59 site as well to allow people easy access to these books without
  60 visiting the library.  The site would be the distribution point for
  61 the kiosk systems, which would connect regularly to fetch any new
  62 books available.</p>
  63
  64 <p>Are there anyone working on a system like this?  I guess it would
  65 fit any library in the world, and not just the Norwegian public
  66 libraries. :)</p>
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