You can read them on your computer screen or you can download them quick and easy with your own computer. They are inexpensive compared to hard cover books. Books have gone through a rapid transition from placing a mail order using a catalog, to ordering Online, to now having the book being an instant download to your computer for reading on the screen or printed out on your home printer.

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One of the hottest topics in the library and book world today is e-books. Hard cover books and the newer e-books both have a place in our lives. An e-book is the same as a hard copy book, only you read it on your computer screen, or you can print it, and then just read it as normal hard copy. Our younger kids like to read inexpensive e-book stories on the computer screen. We prefer our reading on hard copy printouts.

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