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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">Free e-book kiosk for the public libraries?</div>
24 <div class="date"> 7th October 2011</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway the public libraries are debating with the
26 publishing houses how to handle electronic books. Surprisingly, the
27 libraries seem to be willing to accept digital restriction mechanisms
28 (DRM) on books and renting e-books with artificial scarcity from the
29 publishing houses. Time limited renting (2-3 years) is one proposed
30 model, and only allowing X borrowers for each book is another.
31 Personally I find it amazing that libraries are even considering such
32 models.</p>
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34 <p>Anyway, while reading <a href="http://boklaben.no/?p=220">part of
35 this debate</a>, it occurred to me that someone should present a more
36 sensible approach to the libraries, to allow its borrowers to get used
37 to a better model. The idea is simple:</p>
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39 <p>Create a computer system for the libraries, either in the form of a
40 Live DVD or a installable distribution, that provide a simple kiosk
41 solution to hand out free e-books. As a start, the books distributed
42 by <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (about
43 36,000 books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a>
44 (1149 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The
45 Internet Archive</a> (3,033,748 books) could be included, but any book
46 where the copyright has expired or with a free licence could be
47 distributed.</p>
48
49 <p>The computer system would make it easy to:</p>
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51 <ul>
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53 <li>Copy e-books into a USB stick, reading tablets, cell phones and
54 other relevant equipment.</li>
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56 <li>Show the books for reading on the the screen in the library.</li>
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60 <p>In addition to such kiosk solution, there should probably be a web
61 site as well to allow people easy access to these books without
62 visiting the library. The site would be the distribution point for
63 the kiosk systems, which would connect regularly to fetch any new
64 books available.</p>
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66 <p>Are there anyone working on a system like this? I guess it would
67 fit any library in the world, and not just the Norwegian public
68 libraries. :)</p>
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