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Originally Posted by cybmole
so much pessimism - are they really gonna take your money for an overseas card & then say BTW - you have to show up in person to checkout any of our e-books 
PS the OLCS option is expensive at $125 - but on their fee paying card application page it does say:
"I hereby apply for the privilege to check out materials...." is that good enough for you or are you still skeptical ? |
And how would they enforce it anyway?
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It's not pessimism; it's based on reality. Their statement was ambiguous. All I wanted was confirmation that they allowed digital checkouts and blueinfj provided that.
As to whether a library will take your out-of-state money and then require you to show up in person to check out books - it does happen.
Hennepin County Library offers a non-resident card for $60 and won't allow checkout of downloadable content. So here's a library that will take your money and then require you to show up in person.
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The difference is they only allow physical books -- which naturally require physical pickup.
If they give your card info to OverDrive (and other systems) how are they going to tell those systems, "Oh, they can reserve books but they can't check them out until they come over to our library computers to do it"?? I mean, really!
