{"id":497,"date":"2006-10-04T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/04\/ebook-experience"},"modified":"2007-10-21T01:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T22:30:22","slug":"ebook-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/ebook-experience","title":{"rendered":"eBook experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helmet.fi\">The library website<\/a> for our capital city area started offering eBooks in July this year. The collection is still quite small and seems to include only non-fiction books at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea though. Of course, I wouldn&#8217;t read a 400-500-page Stephen King on the computer screen but for example the CSS guide I test-borrowed works better than well as an eBook. (It is a silly beginner&#8217;s book but I just wanted to glance through it quickly.)<\/p>\n<p>A downside is that there (currently) is no way to book an eBook (ha ha). The loan periods are 1 day and 7 days (I think I saw 3 days, too) and you see how long a loan lasts, but because the book can be returned before the loan period is over there is no way to anticipate when a book might be available. And often someone snatches it first. That happened with the CSS book. Every time I went to check, the book was loaned for 5 more days or 2 more days. With books that have more than one copy available this isn&#8217;t much of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t complain though, don&#8217;t really have a reason to either, because it&#8217;s all completely free (except for the electricity) and very convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library website for our capital city area started offering eBooks in July this year. The collection is still quite small and seems to include only non-fiction books at the moment. I like the idea though. Of course, I wouldn&#8217;t read a 400-500-page Stephen King on the computer screen but for example the CSS guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computer-and-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}