http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/125
the above is the link to the book I viewed. The Kindle version is displayed, and I would imagine that the patron would just have to connect their device to download it. However, I note that our subscription to Overdrive currently requires our patrons to download the ebooks from their home computers or computers outside, our computers in our library do not work for downloading currently. I can imagine that some patrons would be interested in Gutenberg, but the plain HTML is not fancy....and of course only old books are available.
I have read books online for a long time. There are other sites besides Gutenberg I used, one I liked because you could change the colors of the background and text, as well as the size.
Ereaders are still a new thing for me, and I can't seem to get that excited about them. But I do accept that they will change libraries a lot.
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