http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4276
I had no idea that there were so many formats and accessibility issues with e-readers. In helping out patrons (who are already asking about ebooks when we closed our library for renovation) there is a definite learning curve that we as librarians have to master as nothing is standardised. As we know, e-readers like Kindle and Nook were not developed for libraries but for purchases off of Amazon and Barnes and Noble so standardization is probably not in the future. I find Project Gutenberg very easy to use if you are going to download it to a computer, however, downloading to the various devises is something else. Here, in this time of transition, librarians are needed to be media techs. After our library re-opens in January, we will be purchasing several kinds of e-readers so that we can serve as teachers to our patrons especially those retirees that just received an e-reader from a younger relatives. After practicing, I'm sure we will be up to the task of helping them download from Project Gutenberg when the owner of Kindles, Nooks, and other devises come in asking for help.
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