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Baobab is the the app of the Prêt Numérique en Bibliothèque (Digital lending in librairies), an inter-professional project that allows access to digital reading in public libraries that currently agregates more than 6 000 institutions in France.

Baobab allows library users to synchronize their borrowed publications on their own devices (smartphones and tablets) to read them. Baobab allows also to restore in advance a ressource or to ask for an extension of the loan period.



Features
- search of the library
- authentification of the library user
- synchronization of the loans
- Consultation of Ebooks (epub, pdf audiobook files) protected by the LCP DRM. 
- Restoration and extension of the loan period management


Technologies 
- Rendering engines for pdf, ePub and audiobooks (including Readium2)
- Proprietary APIs for libraries search, loan synchronization
- authentication protocol oauth2
- LCP Licences for loans and services (loan extensions, early returns...)


Graphic design
ABM Studio


Baobab is a white label app of the Lisa Business solution.