One thing I, Publius Jr, missed about Pre-Covid days was going to the library. I used to go 3-4 times a week mainly to use their computers which had updated virus protection and in the Ramsey County Library I went to, a Dunn Brothers coffee shop to get a mocha. Yes, I did website administration and writing of articles there.
It was a plus when area school children had their artwork displayed in public. There are some great budding artists out there.
Metropolitan Library Service Agency, or MELSA has an E-Reader System called The Libby App by Overdrive or Libby for short.
Here’s a video from another public library in Texas, with an informal tutorial.
Libby books can be read on a Kindle device, in fact it will ask you which method of viewing your book selections you’d like to read it on. On my laptop computer it makes use of the full screen. It is crisp and fluid in its functioning.
The best news is being able to borrow magazines. Another one of my favorite activities at a Library was to go to the area near the fireplace and read, or leaf through a magazine. Libby has that covered. There is no crinkle of pages or the sometimes hard to turn a page due to the metal spine. The magazine pages are vivid and you can enlarge them or just leaf through the pages as you would in an actual magazine. The best thing is it won’t take up too much space on your coffee or end table.
Life has returned to as close as normal as it was before Covid lockdowns. I still use the e-reader but there are just some things my devices can’t replicate online. Some of the things are seeing the librarians and saying hello, enjoying a mocha from Dunn Brothers, or hearing Howard’s Countdown Trivia in the last hour before closing.