In our fast paced life, we have integrations of old things into new things as they become thought of and incorporated. John J. Medina states that our generation is the generation of researchers and finders of information that the previous generations have discovered. As books have declined in the rate of use, we’ve incorporated the idea of the “eBook” into many of the devices we have already have.

Currently in many public libraries such as the Brevard Public Library system, the New York Public Library system, and the Los Angeles Public Library system to name a few, have gotten publishing rights from the author to make personal scans of books so that they can loan the eBook copies to those people that request them from the Library using their standard library card and device such as Kindles, Nooks, iPads, Androids, and iPhones. Also, you can download a .pdf file so that you can read the book when you’re at home or at the office.

The sign up process is fairly easy, even for those adults that aren’t as tech savvy as the technology generation of America. You enter your library card number in the appropriate library eBook section of the website and it redirects you to the eBook rental site.

When on the public library eBook site, you can rent any of the books that they have made available to the public. The library can only loan a certain amount of copies of the eBook due to publishing rights. When you want a book, there might me a list of people that want to use that book, and so you’re automatically added to the waiting list. When the book is available, it automatically shows up on your device that you’ve pre-set onto the public library website.

After the set time established by the public library you use, the eBook deletes off of your Kindle, iPad, Android, iTouch, or Computer, and redirects to the next person on the waiting list.

After personal use, the availability to have a book at your fingertips anywhere you are is pretty incredible. Of course, you don’t get the same satisfaction of turning a page like you get with a book. The fact that it appears on your device without you having to leave the house to go to the library is probably the greatest future of it. And like a paper book at the library, you can re-new the book by just checking it back out if there’s no waiting list for the book. I give the functionality a big thumbs up and encourage you to try it for yourself.