http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/07/29/ebook-sales-and-summer-bbqs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ebook-sales-and-summer-bbqs Stephen Abram's Posts About Library Land Mon, 21 May 2012 20:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/07/29/ebook-sales-and-summer-bbqs/comment-page-1/#comment-11008 Rybrarian Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:02:33 +0000 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=4906#comment-11008 First of all, my friends and I are too busy talking about sports and craft beer for this topic to even come up in the first place. Secondly, if someone did ask me this question, I would tell them that e-books and e-readers rock! If I want to read a book, boom, I can get it instantaneously on my Kindle. Sure, I could try to get a book from my library via Overdrive, but that process is way too tedious and the selection sucks anyway, so why bother? I am going on vacation to Hawaii for two weeks and don't want to haul around 10 books with me, no worries, I can just put them on my Kindle. We live in an instant gratification society, a society where we want it now, and, maybe more importantly, we want it easy. Are we librarians screwed? Well, maybe. We are if we don't enhance the user experience in our libraries. We are if we don't give the people want they want and give it to them in a fast and friendly manner. Does the awesomeness of the Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Droid, and other personal technology devices that give users a lot of the things that librarians give users scare the heck out of me and keep me awake a night...you bet your obsolete Dewey Decimal System it does! But we have a chance if we are able to shake things up a little bit....what do you guys think? First of all, my friends and I are too busy talking about sports and craft beer for this topic to even come up in the first place. Secondly, if someone did ask me this question, I would tell them that e-books and e-readers rock! If I want to read a book, boom, I can get it instantaneously on my Kindle. Sure, I could try to get a book from my library via Overdrive, but that process is way too tedious and the selection sucks anyway, so why bother? I am going on vacation to Hawaii for two weeks and don’t want to haul around 10 books with me, no worries, I can just put them on my Kindle. We live in an instant gratification society, a society where we want it now, and, maybe more importantly, we want it easy. Are we librarians screwed? Well, maybe. We are if we don’t enhance the user experience in our libraries. We are if we don’t give the people want they want and give it to them in a fast and friendly manner. Does the awesomeness of the Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Droid, and other personal technology devices that give users a lot of the things that librarians give users scare the heck out of me and keep me awake a night…you bet your obsolete Dewey Decimal System it does! But we have a chance if we are able to shake things up a little bit….what do you guys think?

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