Instead, the facility will be serving up ebooks -- about 10, 000 digital titles or so -- in an attempt to supplement the area's traditional library system with some new-school cool.

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There is a freestanding pub with billiards, a library, even a traditional Japanese bathhouse.

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Crackle, Inc. is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original short form series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures' vast library of television series and feature films.

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Even with Vista codec packs installed (we used K-Lite) and the .mp4 reg hack which supposedly enables MP4 file indexing in WMP11, we could still only jam more "traditional" WMP-capable media into the library (MPG, AVI, etc.).

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The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.

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And those who yearn for something a bit more traditional, perhaps even in a frame, should try dropping by the Mitchell Library where art duo Walker and Bromwich have set up an art lending library.

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