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E-book Use Increases in Tennessee

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Downloads in Tennessee's Regional E-book and Audio Download System, or READS, increased 77 percent in the past year.  

The free program offers thousands of digital e-books and audio books to patrons of public libraries belonging to the Tennessee Regional Library System.  Digital titles can be downloaded to a personal computer or a variety of portable devices.  Books downloaded across the state in the past year was almost 702,000.  The program began in 2005, primarily with audio books. 

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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