You don't have to live in Seattle to borrow Kindle ebooks from your library anymore -- today, Amazon's imbued 11,000 public libraries across the country with the very same functionality that hit the Emerald City two days ago. That means you're a zip code search away from discovering whether your OverDrive-equipped library has Kindle ebooks, and a library card number and PIN away from downloading them to your device. That's assuming, of course, that you've got a USB cable or a steady dose of Wi-Fi. If you've got a Kindle 3G, Whispersync will still keep track of your notes and the like, but the company's not going to foot the bill to download them this time.
Kindle library lending open to all, brings wireless ebook borrowing to 11,000 public institutions
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Source: Amazon.com, via Engadget
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