Many people feel it is not convenient to carry a book for reading and will have problems when looking for a book on certain software of digital reading because they either can’t find the book or they need to pay for the reading…Yangpu District Library has recently launched an electronic book lending machine on its first floor for readers to download the genuine electronic books by scanning two-dimension codes.
The library has launched a series of electronic cards for digital reading such as “mobile reading,” “magazine reading room,” “digital browse reading,” and “children English learning online”. The readers need only log with the name and password of these electronic cards to download from the website.
As for the lending machine that the library has newly put into operation, readers can scan the two-dimension code on the screen with a mobile phone to download the client of the library. After installing the client, readers can choose the book type and scan the two-dimension code on the right bottom of the book cover on the screen of the lending machine for downloading the book into their mobile phones.
The lending machine is currently offering 2,000 solely authorized electronic books. The library will renew it with 200 new books each month. The books are all popular one, covering a good variety of categories such as health & life, literature, children education, novel & biography, society & law, culture & art, science & technology, history & geography, philosophy and religion, etc.
The lending machine supports multi-touch, sliding and dragging operations. By touching images on the screen, readers can easily download over 2,000 books into their mobile phones for reading offline.
Staff of the library remind readers that electronic books downloaded from the lending machine can be kept for 45 days only. After 45 days, the books won’t be opened. Readers need to go to the library to download again if they want to continue reading the book. The leading machine can only support Android system at the moment.
According to related principals of the library, as new media reading and mobile digital readings are leading the trend of urban reading, the library has launched appropriate information products to meet different readers’ needs. The library will continue to introduce characteristic mobile reading products so as to provide easy and convenient digital reading services to inspire the readers’ interest and passion.