Many public libraries as we know them today arose from the private libraries of wealthy individuals. Only the wealthy could afford to amass any number of books. It was the establishment of free public libraries that made books available to the common man. In a way the advent of electronic books have taken us back into time, only with the difference that you do not need to be wealthy to afford a good library. The electronic reader has evened the playing field. Now it is possible for the average person to afford the same kind of collection that only the wealthy of times past could afford.
The Kindle reader is an example of such an electronic reader. If you go to the Official Kindle Website you can see the wide variety of books that are available. One advantage of an electronic reader is that there are no late fees. Once a book is downloaded, it is yours to keep. An electronic reader is also portable. The user can take the entire collection with them where ever they are going. There are some disadvantages to using an electronic book reader to store your private library. It might not be possible to find the book you want available in an eBook format. And on occasion there can other bumps in the road, such as the recent controversy when Amazon deleted a book because of copyright problems from the Kindles of readers who had already paid for it. One personal disadvantage is that an electronic reader library does not provide the same sensory stimulus you get when you enter a library as well as the feel of holding a book in your hand and turning the pages.
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