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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  22     <h3>Entries from October 2011.</h3>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_e_book_kiosk_for_the_public_libraries_.html">Free e-book kiosk for the public libraries?</a>
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  29          7th October 2011
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  32         <p>Here in Norway the public libraries are debating with the
  33 publishing houses how to handle electronic books.  Surprisingly, the
  34 libraries seem to be willing to accept digital restriction mechanisms
  35 (DRM) on books and renting e-books with artificial scarcity from the
  36 publishing houses.  Time limited renting (2-3 years) is one proposed
  37 model, and only allowing X borrowers for each book is another.
  38 Personally I find it amazing that libraries are even considering such
  39 models.</p>
  40
  41 <p>Anyway, while reading <a href="http://boklaben.no/?p=220">part of
  42 this debate</a>, it occurred to me that someone should present a more
  43 sensible approach to the libraries, to allow its borrowers to get used
  44 to a better model.  The idea is simple:</p>
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  46 <p>Create a computer system for the libraries, either in the form of a
  47 Live DVD or a installable distribution, that provide a simple kiosk
  48 solution to hand out free e-books.  As a start, the books distributed
  49 by <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (abount
  50 36,000 books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a>
  51 (1149 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The
  52 Internet Archive</a> (3,033,748 books) could be included, but any book
  53 where the copyright has expired or with a free licence could be
  54 distributed.</p>
  55
  56 <p>The computer system would make it easy to:</p>
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  60 <li>Copy e-books into a USB stick, reading tablets, cell phones and
  61   other relevant equipment.</li>
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  63 <li>Show the books for reading on the the screen in the library.</li>
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  67 <p>In addition to such kiosk solution, there should probably be a web
  68 site as well to allow people easy access to these books without
  69 visiting the library.  The site would be the distribution point for
  70 the kiosk systems, which would connect regularly to fetch any new
  71 books available.</p>
  72
  73 <p>Are there anyone working on a system like this?  I guess it would
  74 fit any library in the world, and not just the Norwegian public
  75 libraries. :)</p>
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  93 <h2>Archive</h2>
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  96 <li>2011
  97 <ul>
  98
  99 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
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 101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
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 103 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
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 105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
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 107 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
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 109 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
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 111 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
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 113 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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 115 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
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 117 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (1)</a></li>
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 119 </ul></li>
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 121 <li>2010
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 124 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
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 126 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
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 128 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
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 130 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
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 132 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 134 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
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 136 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
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 138 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
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 140 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
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 142 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
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 144 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
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 146 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
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 148 </ul></li>
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 150 <li>2009
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 153 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
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 155 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
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 157 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
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 159 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
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 163 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
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 165 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
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 167 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
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 169 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
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 171 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 173 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 175 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
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 177 </ul></li>
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 179 <li>2008
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 182 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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 184 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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