[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Micah R Ledbetter <vlack-lists at vlack.com>
" 
" 
" Ugh. At my school (University of Texas), at least one of the online  
" "libraries" that we subscribe to does the encryption thing... it's so  
" they can recreate the whole delightful experience of checking out  
" books and then not being able to read them after a certain period of  
" time - just like a real library! I think you could only get them for  
" 24 hours at a time, and then you had to go back and do it again.
" 
" I'm just sure that somewhere, they've even added the "feature" of  
" allowing only a certain number of articles/books to be "checked out"  
" at one time... so that only X number of "copies" are owned by the e- 
" lib, then only that many people can view it at once. AAh! :)

my local public library system has recently added encrypted e-books.
if they didn't rely on windows drm i might actually look twice at
them...  i -think- they give you 3 wks, just like a real book loan.
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