Now available for 4 hour loan at the D. H. Hill Library Circulation Desk is Amazon Kindle DX Portable E-Book Reader 36, a current Newsreader with five major news sources: three daily newspapers and two news weeklies.


The News & Observer (Kindle Edition)
[Latest addition! too new for the online catalog]


The New York Times (Kindle Edition)


The Wall Street Journal (Kindle Edition)


Time (Kindle Edition)


Newsweek (Kindle Edition)

Read all five news sources, both latest issues and back issues on the same Kindle DX. Text search back issues, or use Text-to-voice to have the Kindle read to you. Latest issues are downloaded each morning.



Ask for Amazon Kindle DX Portable E-Book Reader 36 today at the Circulation Desk of the D. H. Hill Library.

The NCSU Libraries has added 6 Amazon Kindle DX eBook Readers to its Ebook Reader Lending program that includes 18 original Amazon Kindles, 12 Amazon Kindle2s, and 2 Sony eBook Readers.


Photo by ShakataGaNai from Wikimedia Commons.

One of these DX readers is a Magazine and Newspaper Reader that has the latest and back issues of the following:

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Newsweek
Time

It can be checked out at the D. H. Hill Library Circulation Desk for 4 hour building only loan.

The other five Kindle DX readers are available for use in the Ebook Reader Lending program. They will develop a user selected collection of books. NC State users can use an online form to request a title to be loaded onto a Kindle and they will be notified when they can pick it up.

In addition, the Amazon Kindle DX comes with a USB cable and users can download PDF files to read on the Amazon DX 9.7" e-ink screen. It is just over 1/3 of an inch, holds up to 3,500 books, has 16 shades of gray, an auto-rotating screen, long battery life, and a Read-to-Me text-to-speech feature.

NCSU Libraries has Amazon Kindles and Sony Readers available for check out to NCSU students, faculty, and staff. In October the NCSU Libraries added the following 16 titles to the Kindles based on user requests.

Visit EBOOK LENDING to check out an Amazon Kindle or a Sony eBook Reader. See the Kindle Titles Available in the NCSU Libraries.

The 18 Amazon Kindles for loan from the NCSU Libraries share collections in three groups. Amazon Kindles 13 - 18, Group C, have the following 77 titles available on them:

To borrow an Amazon Kindle or a Sony EBook Reader visit the E-book Lending Service

The 18 Amazon Kindles for loan from the NCSU Libraries share collections in three groups. Group B, Amazon Kindles 7 - 12, have the following 63 titles available on them:

To borrow an Amazon Kindle or a Sony EBook Reader visit the E-book Lending Service