Comments on: Why library users need OLPC-style machines for e-books and other apps http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/why-library-users-need-olpc-style-machines-for-e-books-and-other-apps/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/why-library-users-need-olpc-style-machines-for-e-books-and-other-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-291979 Rob Preece Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:32:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6357#comment-291979 I don't know if this solves the problem at all but Dallas Public Library has added Wi-Fi to its computers. I can bring my computer and browse without waiting in line. Of course I have a computer--something many of my neighbors don't (since I live in a largely minority section of our city). Here's the thing, though. I bought my computer, a HP Jornada Pocket PC, for $70 from eBay (including a Wi-Fi card). Yep, below the $100 mark. It's a price that makes David's universal library a real possibility. I'm a true believer in libraries. Instead of putting Starbucks in Barnes and Noble, maybe we need to put them in libraries and make the library the new version of the old salon. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com I don’t know if this solves the problem at all but Dallas Public Library has added Wi-Fi to its computers. I can bring my computer and browse without waiting in line. Of course I have a computer–something many of my neighbors don’t (since I live in a largely minority section of our city). Here’s the thing, though. I bought my computer, a HP Jornada Pocket PC, for $70 from eBay (including a Wi-Fi card). Yep, below the $100 mark. It’s a price that makes David’s universal library a real possibility.

I’m a true believer in libraries. Instead of putting Starbucks in Barnes and Noble, maybe we need to put them in libraries and make the library the new version of the old salon.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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