It's FREE!!! (I just made a paper airplane and it got me to thinking)

My daughter just brought me a piece of paper and asked me to make a plane out of it. As I was folding it I recalled a book I once got at the library on paper airplanes.

I didn't pay for the book. I used it, then returned it. If it is late, I pay a fine.

So then I think about the whole issue: Online Libraries.

Seems there is no issue if my library buys a copy of a book and let's me read it for free. But doing it online? It seems that upsets some folks.

Isn't there a way to have all books at the library online and let people read em? I know google was working on something like that but there were concerns about copyrights and such. Yet I can drive 2 miles and bring the book home and read it for free.

Maybe it is time for online libraries (I know some exist and there are free books online already). Some people can't get out as easily as I can (and whatever happened to the book mobile here that used to come to my hood and let you borrow books???) and this would be perfect for them. Download a copy of the book, like shareware, and in 30 days it expires - but you can renew it.

We could even have limited numbers of them (which is where I think the issue is myself) for download at a time. When someone is done their turn is up and you can download and read it (or mark it to read online and release when done with a default time set).

At any rate - your ideas and thoughts?

PS - Project Gutenberg has a lot of nice works online and you can also download audio copies of books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

through my college. They pay for all of the major search engines like proquest and have a huge selection of online books the catch is on some of them you have to click page by page so you don't print them out! as an alumni i get to keep my subscription which was probably the best perk of college.

I think the cost to the general public is what is prohibitive.

Also have you seen the sony e-reader? looks pretty cool I haven't seen one in person but I might order one.

http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/pa/prs/index.html?DCMP=Reader_Google&HQS=sony_ebook

..Maybe a small fee to read a book..??

probably for a tiiiny fraction of the cost Iraq war, we could compensate authors for access to their books through online libraries, based on the market price for their book and the amount that it is accessed.

and I mean the real GWB Library that will tell the whole truth about the man that cannot tell the truth. This library should expose * for who he is and what his administration did to this country. We all know that the land based GWB library will be nothing but a lie - filled with rewritten history and false documents. But we could house the real true story about * here on what he calls "the internets".