Well, for some time now, I have been looking up books and not finding them in the Library of Congress catalog or there is this link to Stacks. Sitting in the European Reading Room working on my laptop, I have tried to use this Stacks thing to find e-books, and it never worked. I've found out that you can only access e-books at the Library of Congress on one terminal in each reading room. There is no real problem with getting access at this one terminal because 1) no one seems to know about Stacks and 2) you would have to move and sit at a terminal to read the e-book. Here is where the Stacks link is:
As the Library of Congress states, "Briefly, Stacks is a software platform developed at the Library of Congress to render and enable access to materials that can only be made accessible on dedicated reading room terminals." I suppose that this means that over 100,000 e-books only available on solo terminals have replaced what would have been physical books. At university libraries and the public libraries, you can check out and read e-books wherever you want in the reading room/library or elsewhere.
Stacks seems sort of sad.
