I love Libraries!

As a rule I only check out library books if I am desperate to read a particular book because I am a germaphobe.

But just recently I discovered a whole new way to check out books.  I can check out ebooks and side load them to my nook.  At first I thought it was going to be difficult and a pain in the but its SO SIMPLE! 

I have found 2 libraries, the Alachua County Library which is in my home town and the Jacksonville Public Library, that allow you to apply for an ecard online so I have been checking them out as fast as I can read them. 

As soon as we have a house up in Virginia Beach I will go the the library up there and get a library card so I can check ebooks out from their library because they seem to have a larger selection of ebooks. 

I am still in love with my Nook. 

Nook

Last Thursday we went to Best Buy where Clay bought me a Nook (the closest Barns and Noble is on Hilton Head Island about an hour away).  I had been reading books from my mom's account on my Ipod but that is small and hard to hold for long periods and if you accidentally turn or tilt it the page flips and often changes pages in order to accommodate the writing. 


I got the 3g nook and love it.  You can have up to 6 nooks on the same account so I am still using my mom's account.  You can have multiple credit cards on an account so we can both buy books and share them.  Even Clay can read them from his ipod (he doesnt read enough to justify spending the money on his own) when we run across one we think he may like. 

There are literally hundreds of thousands of free books to read AND they have what is called Free Friday where they offer a book for free that is sometimes a new release.

It is easy to tote around, I dont have to worry about the kids playing with it and loosing my page (As they do often with paper books), it takes up less room and is a little more earth friendly.

I am in love.