reading library books on my iPad

Jim Willis
Jim Willis is a technologist, writer, musician, and community organizer. He currently lives in Red Bank, NJ with his wife and kids where he works as Chief Operating and Technology Officer for Passionato.
He combines his love of language and understanding of technology to build social capital and lower the barrier to civic and community engagement.
Here's Jim's abbreviated personal and professional bio.
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email: sjwillis @ willisbros.net
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Jim also helps to advocate for safer walking and biking in Red Bank, NJ. If this sounds like something you're into, join our Red Bank Safe Routes group on google.

I just checked out a book from the Red Bank Public Library for reading on my iPad. It was the most un-Apple like experience I've had thus far on my iPad.

Checking out the book requires a dedicated application from a company called Overdrive for checking out digital media from the library and then an additional account creation with Adobe to read the epub format. There is no way that checking out ebooks from the library will ever be widely adopted until it is as easy as buying something on the kindle. Note that it's not our particular library's fault that this is such a broken process. It seems to be something endemic to libraries in general.

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