Kobo eReader Touch Edition: More to Love About E-books

Library Services has added two new Kobo eReaders to its collection. These new e-book readers are the Kobo eReader Touch Edition model, which means you will no longer need to use the direction pad found on older models to "turn pages" like you did with our older Kobo eReaders.

Kobo eReader Touch Edition

The new readers each contain more than 50 popular titles, plus more than 100 popular public domain titles that will satisfy the interests of almost any patron. To view the availability and contents of each new reader, select either:

• Kobo eReader 4
  
• Kobo eReader 5

Regardless of which of the five Kobo eReaders you borrow from Library Services, all will feature Jessica Grant's Come Thou, Tortoise—Medicine Hat One Book One Community's 2011 book selection!

The new e-readers also feature better quality screens, faster response times, and less "page turning" screen flicker than previous versions. Like the previous versions, the new readers feature microSD card slots that allow our patrons to view their own compatible e-books and files on the devices. For complete technical specifications and information on compatible file types that can be viewed on the Kobo eReader Touch Edition, click here.

Patrons of the Vera Bracken Library can ask for an available device from the Circulation Desk, while Brooks patrons can  see the Services Desk at the Brooks Campus Library.

Kobo E-book Reader is Here!

Library Services has added the Kobo e-book reader to its repertoire of multimedia devices available to employees and students at Medicine Hat College.

The two Kobo readers will be loaded with popular fiction titles on each, which includes:

Kobo eReader 1:

• Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
  
  
• Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes
  
  
• Stieg Larrson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
  
  
• Nora Roberts's Black Hills
  
  
• Danielle Steel's Family Ties: A Novel

Kobo eReader 2:

• Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
  
  
• John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River
  
  
• Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  
  
• James Patterson's Private
  
  
• Scott Turow's Innocent

In addition to those titles, both will contain 100 classic works.

If you want to borrow one, see the Vera Bracken Library's Circulation Desk. You can borrow one for up to one week at a time and have the option of renewing it if no one else has a hold on it.

If you have any suggestions for titles that could be added, please e-mail them to: reference@mhc.ab.ca.

If you would like to know about the Kobo e-book reader, please visit their website: http://www.koboereader.com.