Just finished the article by Meredith Farkas on ebooks and the issues she brought up are some that I really agree with. I too have a problem spending thousands of dollars to buy access only, to books that will disappear if I don't have the money to keep rebuying the access to reference books. At least hard copy books don't disappear from year to year although we do need to replace them, but not always every year.
But ebooks and readers are great,(I have a nook) and we are getting more and more patrons coming in or calling from home wanting our help in how to get their library book unto their ereader. The demand is definitely growing everyday. Our library uses overdrive and we're topheavy on the audio books 6700+ compared to 2600+ digital books. At first audio was more popular so our collection is larger with audio but we are increasing ebooks although patrons would prefer more bestsellers than we currently have.
Project Gutenberg was easy to use and my link is: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/77/77-h/77-h.htm to the House of Seven Gables. There was a link for Kindle and epub which would work for most ereaders. Shouldn't be to complicated but I haven't tried to do it personally.
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