Katsushika Ward in Tokyo plans to start an e-book library, from which users can borrow books online and read whenever they like, without having to visit libraries.
The ward has allocated a budget of 10 million yen to cover expenses, including system installation, for the new fiscal year starting in April.
Users will be able to borrow up to two e-books per person from the newly established e-book library's website and keep them for two weeks, according to the library.
The ward expects that most users will be junior high or high school students and young business people, who are familiar with e-books. The library is scheduled to open in September with about 3,200 books for the first fiscal year. The ward is planning to introduce books from various genres, best-sellers and business books to young adult novels and classic literature.
The library will be available not only to the ward's residents, but also to those who work or go to school in the ward.
"It will be very convenient, because not only borrowing books but returning them will be easy," an official in charge at the ward said. "We expect [the library] will be an effective measure against preventing novel coronavirus infections because it will reduce chances of people coming into contact with one another."
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