Its on the other side of town, so we have not seen it yet ( We copied these pics off the web).
Apparently the costs of the I-Pads that are lent out, the computers on site, and the purchasing of the e-books by the city was the same as just purchasing paper books.
But it was a lot cheaper to get space in a strip mall than build a whole building to house books.
Check it out:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/san-antonio-library-offers-glimpse-of-bookless-future/-/1735978/23758560/-/a7nm9oz/-/index.html
It's surprising to us that half the e-reader machines are checked out at one time and none have been stolen or damaged.
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