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World’s smallest lending library?

December 1, 2009
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The people of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset, England recently suffered a double blow when their public phone box was decommissioned and the mobile library service ceased to operate.
What were they do do? Surely the answer is obvious. They took ownership of the phone box through BT’s Adopt a Kiosk program and rather than turning into an [...]

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Slim Ink book rental

April 1, 2009

Previously on ReadingHacks I wrote about a few book rental services, two from the US, and one, Slim Ink book rental, based here in Australia. Following that post Slim Ink invited me to try out the service for 3 months in order to provide a first hand review of their service.
The process of evaluating the [...]

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Book dispensing machines

July 20, 2008

Users of the Contra Costa County Library no longer need to panic if they forget to take a book on the train. They can just grab one from a book dispensing machine.
Brilliant. I’m a big fan of making libraries more accessible so this sounds great.
You can also read the official press release from the library, [...]

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Reserving and requesting books at your local library

July 11, 2008

Let me paint you a picture. You hear that JK Rowling has decided to write another Harry Potter book and it is going to be called “Harry Potter and the never ending high school”. You jump online, visit your library’s website and check their catalogue. It’s not there yet. Of course not – it won’t [...]

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Book rental

July 8, 2008

A few weeks ago I noticed an ad in a magazine for Slim Ink book rental. Until this point, I had not been aware of this sort of service. In fact, it had never occurred to me to see if such a thing existed.
I had been aware of the Melbourne Athenaeum Library, which is [...]

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