Towanda Public Library

Maggie Stiefvater’s trailer for The Raven Boys is especially cool because she did the animation and musical composition herself.

Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there — known as Raven Boys — can only mean trouble.

Interested? Be sure to check it out, it’s available now at TPL — and the sequel is here, too.

Cory Doctorow, a columnist and sci-fi author, tackles the question of how e-books should work at libraries in his Locus Online column:

Unlike every other channel for e-books, libraries are not the publishers’ competitors. They don’t want to sell devices. They don’t want to win over customers to a particular cloud. They just want readers to read, writers to write, and publishers to sell. They deserve a better deal than they’re getting.

Even at a small library like this one, we have patrons asking about e-books, and at our current budget and their current prices, we simply cannot afford an e-book collection. We do provide our patrons with some e-books through the Kansas State Library, though, so if that’s what you’re looking for at least we have a current possibility for you. However, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for books, e-books, and libraries ….