More than 20,000 e-books were borrowed from Scottish libraries last year as loans of traditional books fell for the third year.
Less than 24 million books were loaned from libraries in Scotland for the first time last year, figures from the Public Lending Right (PLR) body show.
However, despite library closures and the availability of cheaper paperbacks, e-book loans have boomed, with 20,014 downloaded last year in Scotland and more than 560,000 in the UK.
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