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Old 02-12-2011, 10:01 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Lirael View Post
My library system made a big deal out of ordering loads of new ebooks around the holidays. Some of them are good, and it's a nice change from how the catalog used to be - before this it was mostly self-help books.

I do have to question their wisdom a bit, though, as a lot of the books they've bought are later books in a series - so, they'll have, say, number 11 available as an ebook, but not numbers 1-10. In some cases they don't even have the other books in the series as pbooks!

Sigh. I should probably stop being so picky. :P
You should be picky. It means you cannot read these series without buying some of the books. They should look at what they have and what's out there before getting incomplete series.
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