Now the Library also lends e-books – Il Tirreno

 PRATO. To provide citizens with superior reading experience, from Saturday 11 June, the Lazzerini library makes available for free loan 14 digital readers e-book brand new and latest generation.

 

 “I can imagine a world without books. I can not imagine one without reading.” Sitting or lying down, today we read more and more about the new devices made available by mobile technology. As e-readers, capable of accommodating real “portable” libraries in the space of a light pocket.

 

 The e-reader loan was introduced to Lazzerini already in 2011, and today, to keep pace with technological innovation, the service is renewed with the latest technology to make reading of the screen more comfortable. The new e-readers have been tested “Preview” from a reading group, formed by participants selected from Lazzerini with the intent to share their own with this new experience and collaudarne the features together, before offering them to the public.

 

 The novelty in the field of reading in the digital age does not end there. Moreover, as from Saturday, June 11 also in the branch libraries of the North and West constituencies you can borrow for free a few e-book readers. Thus, the closest thing to the printed book technology has been able to invent, it becomes available to everyone in the public libraries of the city of Prato, for a new reading mode. Each digital reader borrowed lets you browse, read on display or just to get an idea of ​​about a hundred books in pre-loaded electronic format, with the option to add more to your liking. Each e-book reader can be borrowed by members and older for a period of 30 days. If the digital music player there is not, you can ask to reserve it in the library or, for Lazzerini, also via the online loan service.

 

 It also points out that library users can also subscribe to MediaLibraryOnLine , the daily digital library. Here a world of free content online awaits anyone. And today even more so, thanks to the Collection OpenMLOL , which provides about 200,000 e-books “open” to download without time limit, as well as music, video, film, sheet music, apps, games and more. To access MLOL you can request

also account via the internet, via the website of the Library http://www.sistemabibliotecario.prato.it/ system, without going to the library. And ‘in fact sufficient to be enrolled in the loan.