I live in San Mateo County and can already check out, along with other Northern California public library patrons, full color editions of a limited but hopefull

I live in San Mateo County and can already check out, along with other Northern California public library patrons, full color editions of a limited but hopefully growing selection of quite good books. The system uses Adobe Digital Editions software for display and DRM and replicates the library one-patron-checks-out-a-given-book-at-a-time model. The majority of the current catalog is unfortunately full of the long tail of crappy bodice-rippers but if you wade through there are some good books. I don't see Kurzweil's system adding anything other than irrelevant eye candy.