ebooks this afternoon.

We're beta testing for a new player. And of course it's a different model to all the others.

Some allow students to 'borrow' an ebook and no one else can read it for those 24 hours.
Some allow only reading online.
This one does have mechanisms for downloading an ebook (which selfdestructs after a set time) but *every* time a student looks at it 'credits' are used up. Once the limit for the book is used up the library gets the option to buy it again (or buy multiple copies in the first place).

But you can tell it's still a technology that's not matured yet when everyone does something slightly differently. And it's still debateable how many people want to read a book on the screens we have now. Even with the new laptop I'm hardly lapping them up all of a sudden. Still prefer my Palm for comfort of reading and instant 'on' if not size of screen!