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Newport Beach Considering Making Balboa Branch A Book-less Library

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First Posted: 04/06/11 05:04 PM ET Updated: 06/06/11 06:12 AM ET

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With state and municipal budgets being cut across the nation, many are trying to come up with ways to make ends meet.
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wongsableng
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08:35 PM on 04/12/2011
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hairydodger
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05:30 PM on 04/08/2011
If you have an iPad may I suggest a look at the bookstore/library of the future? This is not a commercial post as the book I suggest is free. From your iPad go to the iTunes ebook store and download "Box Head Man". This is only the earliest infancy of what is in all our futures. This is a wonderful enhanced ebook and only the beginning of what's to come.
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10:49 AM on 04/11/2011
You can download a lot more than that for free. Thanks to the Gutenberg Project most classic books that have been around long enough to be in the public domain are available for free to anyone with an eReader. Examples include Huck Finn, Alice in Wonderland, Origin of Species, the complete works of Plato, etc.
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Fabini
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05:54 AM on 04/08/2011
The library in my town could go bookless. It's not really a repository for books anyway. It's an after-school detention center for kids.
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12:06 PM on 04/07/2011
Well if you take all the books away, there's not much point in calling it a library.
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10:54 AM on 04/11/2011
I disagree. For one thing if they have a community sharing system in LA the way we do in the San Francisco area you could still get books from a bookless library. The library is just the destination point. You use the Internet to browse all the books that are in the system (e.g. from the main branch in LA) you reserve the book you want and then its delivered to you at your local branch when its available. You return it to the local branch when you are done. Another use is to have reference people to help people do research and find information which can be done online. Finally, more and more books are becoming available in electronic format and can be lent in that format just as physical books. So computer servers could take the place of books.

Note: I'm not at all advocating that libraries get rid of their actual books. I think its a shame that they are required to consider options like this. I'm just saying its not as off the wall as it sounds and a bookless library is still better than no library at all.
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