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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Sunrise Children’s Hospital is providing a new way for children, teens and adults to gain access to books inside of its building. Friday morning, the hospital had a ...

On the surface, Amazon's Lending Library, which begins today, sounds Netflix-esque: Pay a fee for unlimited digital borrowing access. But for people used to the all-you-can-eat goodness of Netflix, ...

Amazon doesn’t want to kill local libraries, or at least that’s what its newest venture would seem to indicate. A new partnership with OverDrive, slated to launch later this year, will allow patrons ...

Traditionally, you need a library card to access physical books and library facilities. But in today’s digital world, things have changed, as we all know. Today, we read e-books on e-readers, thus ...

For a growing number of Americans, reading is more than leafing through a physical book. Between 2011 and 2021, the share of Americans who listened to an audiobook more than doubled, from 11% to 23%, ...

Can libraries continue their role as lenders when books are in digital form? While library executives are set on the idea, at least some book publishers seem to still be wary of having libraries ...

Everyone’s familiar with the concept of a public library. Sign up and you can check out thousands of books that would otherwise be inaccessible. But what if you need a sewing machine? Or plan to start ...