I am underwhelmed. I visited the sample site to look for a public domain e-book, and lo, and behold what were the top 2 entries? Items from Amazon. Didn't get to Project Gutenberg until later. A book I know is rare wasn't even listed, and the quote page started with a couple commercial sites that weren't even quotation sites. Even the non-starter had an ad for 'free' downloads. After looking at their 'about' page, I could see that they have an active PR machine, with a real gift for archiving complimentary quotes from celebrities--didn't see any librarians quoted, but a lot of glitterati, political chatterers, and similar members of the fab and fribble. I can't imagine needing to bother with yet another account to keep track of my preferred websites. One can create favorites lists in both IE and Firefox, the most common at-work browsers, which you can keep on a jump drive if you somehow feel the need to answer reference questions while on vacation.
It is another .com site to which we are encouraged to entrust information on our work and our patrons that is probably covered under most states' library confidentiality laws. This is another freebie that could get us into a lot of trouble somewhere down the road.
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