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cybmole · 01-23-2014, 04:20 PM

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Where does it say that fee cards have access to ebooks?

"With your library card number and PIN, you can access:
Electronic Resources - downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, streaming music, and hundreds of great databases!"

http://www.freelibrary.org/registration/loan.htm

+ what made me start this thread was reading the 2011 thread about how non USA readers had signed up & were able to access e-books.

OK, maybe some small libraries in hicksville, middle-of-nowhere have a less liberal policy,so debate that if you must. All I wanted to do was check if I could sign up for free library of Philadelphia from outside of USA & as at now it is looking plausible, I emailed them Sunday & they got back to me today, say allow another 14 days but things are moving.

I have not found a single "Philadelphia screwed me over- took my money but did not allow me ebooks" posting anywhere on the net.

Brooklyn seems to have had a yes, no, maybe, yes, no.... policy ( from reading other discussions) but as at now they are in a NO phase for non US. I posted the email response I received. ( but other folks got in OK in 2012 ! )

01-23-2014, 04:20 PM	#36
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	Quote: Where does it say that fee cards have access to ebooks? "With your library card number and PIN, you can access: Electronic Resources - downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, streaming music, and hundreds of great databases!" http://www.freelibrary.org/registration/loan.htm + what made me start this thread was reading the 2011 thread about how non USA readers had signed up & were able to access e-books. OK, maybe some small libraries in hicksville, middle-of-nowhere have a less liberal policy,so debate that if you must. All I wanted to do was check if I could sign up for free library of Philadelphia from outside of USA & as at now it is looking plausible, I emailed them Sunday & they got back to me today, say allow another 14 days but things are moving. I have not found a single "Philadelphia screwed me over- took my money but did not allow me ebooks" posting anywhere on the net. Brooklyn seems to have had a yes, no, maybe, yes, no.... policy ( from reading other discussions) but as at now they are in a NO phase for non US. I posted the email response I received. ( but other folks got in OK in 2012 ! ) Last edited by cybmole; 01-23-2014 at 04:24 PM.