03-30-2012, 10:25 AM | #211 |
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I was on my library site last night and saw they had available copies, I guess I timed it right. I downloaded the first one to inspect. I'll return it tomorrow, so as not to get a warning from Overdrive about returning books too soon.
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03-30-2012, 11:12 AM | #212 |
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I'm actually a little surprised at how few requests there are at my library for these. The first book has 14 people on the waiting list. Compare that to the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire, which has 69 people waiting for it.
Had no problem downloading all 7 of them through amazon last night. Not sure that the library copies are actually watermarked, I only glanced at it last night, but didn't see some of the stuff that people mentioned. |
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03-30-2012, 12:37 PM | #213 |
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My library has no waiting list for any of the books. But they don't have the books, either. I've even emailed them to ask them to please acquire these. Still waiting to hear back.
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04-01-2012, 10:31 AM | #214 |
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My library has a longer waiting list for the audiobooks than the ebooks, most of the ebooks still have available copies.
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04-01-2012, 01:59 PM | #215 |
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For the 1st book, my library has 15 copies of the ebooks and 4 are currently available. For the audiobook, they have 20 copies and there are 17 people on the waiting list. I'm kind of surprised by this.
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Still waiting on Book #2 to download from Amazon. I might have to contact them.
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04-01-2012, 08:22 PM | #217 |
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I think a lot of libraries are seeing the Audio books have longer waiting lists than the eBooks. This doesn't really surprise me -- the cost to BUY the audio books is way more than I'm willing to pay, and that's likely true for most. And since they're not available from places like Audible.com, where you've already committed a fair amount of money annually, the cost of the audio books is in addition to that commitment. Plus, at least at my library, the audio books were visible to pre-order way before the eBooks were, so the backup has had a chance to build.
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I did finally chat with CS. After convincing the nice man that no, I really was talking about book #2 and not book #1, he saw that there was a problem and said it would be fixed "soon".
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