A Brief Look at Digital Content Available From Utah’s Public Libraries

From The Salt Lake Tribune

In 2011, Utah’s public libraries offered a collective total of 111,670 ebooks and audiobooks, according to data collected by the Utah State Library.
By 2013, that number had grown to include more than 1 million audiobook and ebook titles.
“Utahns have increasingly relied on digital resources to answer day to day questions,” Morris said, “to answer business questions, to answer life’s questions, to answer whatever questions they may have.”
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The mobile app FarFaria, which allows users to access one book for free each day from its library of digital children’s books, recently released a report on its user data that showed Utah children were among the country’s most regular e-readers.
FarFaria users in Utah read an average of 12 ebooks each month during the summer of 2014, compared to the app’s national average of 9.6 books.

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