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Originally Posted by piperclassique
Don't just go by the numbers. Tastes differ in books as in all else. Personally, I prefer the selection in Devon public libraries to that in Philadelphia. Browse first before signing up would be my advice.
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I've done my homework:
for Laurel K. Hamilton there are ~30 books in her 2 most popular series.
UK libraries have none of them , except for some strange reason my local has volumes 6 & & only of the merry gentry series but cannot order the rest of the series, so they say..
USA libraries have full sets & to buy them in uk at £5 per book would cost me far more than a years' subscription.
[£5 x 30 ,just for this one author compared with say £35 for a 1 year subscription & I'd get through all of them in a year, no problem]
I have already read most of them once ( in pirate form), I'd like to do a proper & legal re-read if I can find an affordable route
Philadelphia also have some ( not all ) of the Ian Rankin Inspector Rebus books whereas UK libraries have none - even though he's a UK author. I blame his greedy publishers who are probably blocking all UK loans
PS please lets not start an off-topic debate on the quality of Ms Hamilton's later books, there's enough of those on the web already - just take the above as an example of the economics.