Amazon Kindle

   I were a bit reluctant at first to give much notice this to this device, happenstance bought for another person in the household, but after tinkering with the device here, a lot better then I had expected-.  One, while having something proprietary such as the Amazon name attached to it, and potentially anything else that might go with this, such as a locked format for file importation and additionally locks on files for transfer say from one device to another, it seems fears weren't entirely correct here.  Actually I would suggest, for instance, an application such as Calibre which could convert from any range of file formats to an existing reader format.  You find a wiki book online in .pdf just use Calibre to transfer it to a kindle (.mobi) format, and the same could apply to other information found at any other sites, provided you could get this in some conversion compatible format.  Likewise, it seems if you wanted, outside of access to any current bestseller's publication, access to say classic books, you could find publications at Gutenberg which provides access to any number of books for free.  I would hope Amazon and friends come up with something compatible to existing library infrastructure in so far as loan and lending commonly found in our public library system.  There is always the option, through Amazon's site to Amazon prime subscription which provides limited loan access (appears to be limited to either one loan per month, or one concurrent loan at any time during the month for a particular book that can be loaned out).  At present, for a monthly subscription relative to existing public library infrastructure, a public library in so far as loan potential could seem in many ways much better in terms of options (library permitting), but it seems public libraries themselves may be growing in number potentially offering public electronic reader users the same type of access that might be had of printed media.  The advantages, however, between print and electronic media it seems in theory are that, one hadn't need deal with late fees, lost or books in dis repair that need be replaced.  Here, for example, once a books loan term expires.  The royalty paid for book copy need not be returned physically, simply its existence on a user'-s reader just need be removed, and accounting placed into the circulation system for update where a copy download could resume for any interested loan user.  Of course, prime subscription provides limited access to any other multi media outside of publications, which could seem reasonable, as to buying a copy of published media prior to reading or seeing this, I would offer that the loan option for many households would seem more reasonable, and if someone felt more compelled to have it for permanent use in a library collection, its purchase could be just as likely had.  Of course, added to this it seems not only bestsellers or any range of popular publications are less costing here, but also academic textbooks themselves, lacking the added cost of printed paper media, tend to be less expensive, and sparing trees in the process.

All in all it seems book library loan options on the web, could improve more so, to make this device that much better, but I would still at least rate the device fairly high in providing users the ability to create custom libraries and neither have to do so purchasing every bit of information that exists on the web or elsewhere.