Digital libraries allow the customer to read their books
online or on a wireless device. The only digital library in existence at the
moment is the Amazon Kindle store, where you can buy or borrow books, which are
then down loaded onto your personal device, but many more are constantly being
developed around the world. By doing this it means that you don’t have to leave
your home to get a new book and you don’t even have to carry a heavy paper or
hard back book around wherever you go.
They have helped with the academic growth of the internet
for a number of reasons. Firstly, they have allowed a wider range of books to
become available to a wider audience all over the world, which in an academic
world can only be a good thing. Secondly they have encourages the people who
spend all of their time on electronically devices to read more as they still
have the comfort of it being electric and having a screen on it.
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