You Can Finally Borrow E-Books For Your Kindle From NYPL

Leaping forward into the 21st century, the New York Public Library has announced that readers who refuse to physically go to the library can now borrow even more e-books from from their virtual collection, which will conveniently deliver books straight to your Kindle with the simple click of a button.

Titles on the library's e-book site include The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History, Joyce Carol Oates' A Widow's Story, and trash-tastic romance novel A Night To Surrender. Library officials say the e-books, which have been available previously for most e-readers except Kindle, have been flying off the virtual shelves.

Take a look at the library's full selection of e-books here, and check out their handy visual walkthrough on how to borrow them (E-readers get a standard a loan period of 14-21 days). No more excuses—get cracking on whatever's left of your summer reading list!

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By Jamie Feldmar in Arts & Entertainment on October 6, 2011 11:38 AM

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Tessa Dare

Hey, it's me, Tessa Dare--the "trash-tastic" author of A Night to Surrender! Thanks for mentioning my book. I could do without the implied insult to all my potential readers, but hey.

Surprisingly enough, when I'm not lolling about on a chaise longue wearing my feathered boa and dreaming up more Trash-tastic! stories, I happen to be a public librarian. I'm also a proud NYPL cardholder. I couldn't be more pleased by this new digital lending, and the fact that my book is included makes me even happier.

For those libraries that don't yet have digital borrowing, I've been known to send free print copies of my books for library collections. Any public librarians reading this can hit me up through my website, if they'd like one.

Megan Frampton

I am psyched about this news, and have already successfully borrowed items.

But why do you have to call Tessa Dare's A Night to Surrender "trash-tastic?" You didn't even credit her name, but you do dismiss her work in a belittling, genre-ignorant aphorism.

Courtney Milan

I agree. Tessa Dare is a relatively new author, but she's already gotten three starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. This is not something that happens to an author who is "trash-tastic."

Rosanne Mottola

I've been doing this for years with my Nook. It's a terrific feature! I just hope that the Kindle readers don't grab all the good books now!

Sulayman

Awesome. I really hope this doesn't get locked into just Kindles only though. What about iPads and Nooks?

RoseTL

it's been available to nooks for a while now. not sure what the iPad supports but the nypl has epub, pdf and mobi ebooks.

Sulayman

Well according to the NYPL's links, they are in epub format but have DRM. Not every ebook reader is compatible. For now it appears the iPad and iPhone will work via a third party app.