Sep 16 2008
Library to Send Chapters Via Email to Patrons
The Botetourt Public Library system is offering library books (presumably digital ones) via email in serial fashion. A chapter a day is sent to your email just by signing up at www.botetourt.org/libraries. It's a way for the library system to engage it's readership. I think it's a great idea and wish my library would offer it. (BTW, that's in Virginia if you are wondering).
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Sep 16, 2008 @ 21:08:31
This service has been around for awhile — each day for 5 days you receive an excerpt of the week’s book in your email. You get to choose your preferred genre. It usually amounts to the first 2 or 3 chapters, not the full book. The idea is that if you like the book you’ll then either purchase it or pick it up from the library.
The website is http://www.dearreader.com . I don’t think they strictly require that one is affiliated with a library, though I’m sure they prefer it.
Sep 23, 2008 @ 03:45:35
Yeah, I know that spot. I live about 20 miles from there. Matter of fact, the company I used to work for made that sign in the photograph. :-)
They have a heck of a book on CD collection, too. Read many, many books that way. Come on out to Virginia!!