The e-magazines have been going over very well at the Portage Regional Library says head librarian Percy Gregoire-Voskamp.

The library currently has 50 titles thanks to a deal with Zinio E-magazines and will be receiving 90 more in January. Gregoire-Voskamp hadn't been sure what the reception would be towards the e-magazines but says it had seemed like the logical thing to do.

"Right now we purchase something like 85 titles and it costs almost 3000 dollars to do and here we're getting 140 titles for the same amount of money."

He goes over the statistics of the loans during the first month.

"In August I had something like 260 loans and out of the fifty only three titles hadn't been borrowed."

He notes despite not being particularly interested in technology he is excited by what the e-magazines have to offer.