San Antonio's book-rich public libraries will be unaffected by the project. Bexar County, by contrast, never had a public library service. "I think we're at an advantage there," Ms Cole said. "They've never had a library with books - there's not even a bookstore here." The BiblioTech library in San Antonio, Texas, will offer 10,000 digital titles Judge Wolff has cited Apple founder Steve Jobs as inspiration for the BiblioTech. The New York Public Library is also increasingly lending e-books As well as offering digital books to 1.7m people, the $1.5m BiblioTech project has a big community education remit. It will partner with local schools and run digital literacy courses and will stay open late into the evenings.