Kindles at Mead Library
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Borrowing a Kindle
Mead Library is offering adult library card-holders a chance to get to know the Kindle, a wireless reading device from Amazon.
Five Kindles have been purchased with funds from the William R. Werk Estate, designated for materials that assist the visually impaired. Kindles give users the ability to display type in various sizes and 16 shades of gray and many books offer a text-to-speech feature that “reads” a book out loud.
Any adult with a Library card in good standing (not blocked due to unpaid fees or lost materials) can borrow a Kindle.
Kindles can be reserved through EasiCat or you may stop at the Customer Service desk to see if one is available.
You will be contacted by telephone or e-mail when a Kindle is available for you. You then have 7 days to pick up the Kindle. If the Kindle is not picked up within 7 days, a 50-cent expired hold fee will be added to your account, and the next person on the reserve list will be contacted. When picking up the Kindle, you will need your library card and some form of photo I.D., such as a drivers license.
Each Kindle will have the same 177 titles, a variety which includes many different types of books. A list of titles can be found below. Titles will continue to be added in the future. The checkout period is 14 days (with no renewals or grace period).
Borrowers must sign an agreement acknowledging financial responsibility for lost or damaged equipment and the late fee of $1 per day.
Kindle Titles
8th Confession by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
9th Judgment by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child
Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt
Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass
Bride's Baby by Liz Fielding
Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin
Caught by Harlan Coben
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Chasing the Bear by Robert B. Parker
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cook's Illustrated How-to-Cook Library: An illustrated step-by-step guide to Foolproof Cooking by The Editors of Cooks Illustrated
Coop by Michael Perry
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels
Dancing in the Moonlight by RaeAnne Thayne
Dark Places: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag
Different Life by Quinn Bradlee
Doomsday Key by James Rollins
Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock
Emma by Jane Austen
Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Judith Orloff
Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen
Everything Hurts: A Novel by Bill Scheft
Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Wayne W. Dyer
Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson
Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
First Family by David Baldacci
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Foreign Influence by Brad Thor
Four Years With The Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journal Of William Ray, Company F,
Seventh Wisconsin Volunteers by Lance Herdegen and Sherry Murphy
Free 25 Language Phrasebook by MobileReference
Geometry of Sisters: A Novel by Luanne Rice
Gifted Gabalden Sisters by Lorraine Loepez
Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
Gone Tomorrow: A Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Help, The by Kathryn Stockett
Her Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers
Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles
Holy Bible, Today's New International Version, TNIV by Zondervan
Homespun Bride by Jillian Hart
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode
to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton
Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories by Lisa Lillien
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Into the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
Irresistible Forces by Brenda Jackson
It Happened in Wisconsin by Michael Bie
Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger by Dan Jenkins
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
Just Take My Heart: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle 2 User's Guide 2nd Ed.
Kindle User's Guide 4th Ed.
Kindle User's Guide 5th Ed.
Kiss Me Deadly (Silhouette Nocturne) by Michele Hauf
Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Last Child by John Hart
Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Leader as a Mensch: Become the Kind of Person Others Want to Follow by Bruna Martinuzzi and MD, CEO Michael A Freeman
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Loitering with Intent by Stuart Woods
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher Buckle
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for
a Hot and Healthy Body! by Jillian Michaels and Mariska Van Aalst
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Mommywood by Tori Spelling
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
New Oxford American Dictionary
No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky
Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews
Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout
Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren
Once a Runner: A Novel by John L. Parker
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Open by Andre Agassi
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Paradise Valley by Robyn Carr
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan
Persuasion by Jane Austin
Price of Passion by Susan Napier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke
Reader, The by Bernhard Schlink
Red and Me by Bill Russell and Alan Steinberg
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POW's by Lewis H. Carlson
Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards
Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
Run for Your Life by James Patterson
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch
Shack by William P. Young
Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See
Sign by Raymond Khoury
Silent Sea by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
Sizzle by Julie Garwood
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze) by Leslie Kelly
Snowbound by Janice Kay Johnson
Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming
from World War II by Thomas Childer
Soloist by Steve Lopez
Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder
Speed Dating by Nancy Warren
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Stranded with a Spy by Merline Lovelace
Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
Summer's Path by Scott Blum
Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Swimsuit by James Patterson
Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Take One by Karen Kingsbury
Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel by Alexander Mccall Smith
Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the
Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life by Gail Blanke
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unfinished Business by James Van Praagh
Waiting for Autumn by Scott Blum
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, Book 1) by John Birmingham
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Whispered Lies by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love
Wicked Prey by John Sandford
Wilds Call by Jeri Smith-Ready
Wisconsin Off the Beaten Path by Martin Hintz
Yankee Years by Tom Verducci and Joe Torre
Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out
on Your Own by Robert Tuchman