Libraries without physical books find a niche in San Antonio

In Summer 2015, Bexar County (TX) will open a library in a housing project on the West side of San Antonio. There will be iMacs, iPads, laptops and hundreds of e-readers, but no physical books.

This is the second library to be exclusively digital in San Antonio. Visitors can check out an e-reader for two weeks and pick from a selection of 25,000 books, or surf the Web on one of the library’s computers. Bexar County will rent a building in a low-income housing project for $1 a year from the San Antonio Housing Authority. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff wants to open the digital-only libraries in poorer areas to expose low-income residents to technologies that they might otherwise not have access to.