“I’ll send you an invite to join my reading group in the Book Bench app,” she says. “Oh, you’re reading In a Sunburned Country?” I ask. “So, when you get your books in the app, you can save your 3M and Ingram books to Goodreads too.” “Book Bench has Goodreads integration,” she says. You know how you can’t add 3M books to your Goodreads bookshelf?” “Hey! There are all my ebooks!” I exclaim. “Okay, give me just a second.” I use the app to log in to OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library, and Ingram. “Use the settings to log in to our library’s ebook services with your library card and PIN.” “Yeah, that will make helping people a lot easier. “The Book Bench username and password takes care of the Adobe authorization. Isn’t that cool?” Then use your new account to sign in to the app.” “Tap ‘Sign Up’ to make a Book Bench account. “Just go to the App Store and download Book Bench.” What? You put all your library ebooks in one app? Can I do that?” “I’ve got my OverDrive, 3M, and Ingram books on it.” She tells me about a new reading app she found on a technology blog. She teaches a lot of the ebook classes at our library. It’s a Tuesday morning, I am talking with my co-worker, Sally. This article discusses social reading and why libraries should look at the technology, and details the Adobe ADEPT DRM system, OAuth, and application programming interfaces (APIs) to illustrate how an aggregated reading app could be built.īy Jenny Ellis and Kyle Cook Book Bench: An Aggregated eBook Reading App Because all library ebook vendors use the same Adobe ADEPT system to circulate ebooks, they could be delivered to a single aggregated reading app.
In Brief: Library ebooks are currently read in different, unconnected reading platforms. “The Gates Through Central Park Benches” photo by Flickr user Sterling Ely (CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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