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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
My library has one of the larger collections in the US AFAIK and fairly often have luck finding stuff I'm looking for. The problem I run into is that often books I want are checked out with a decent length wait/hold list so I can't check them out any time soon. This can be especially problematic with series.
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I'm making use of the wishlist feature in Overdrive. I've become very frustrated with the search in their web site, even the advanced search. So when I stumble across a book that looks interesting, I stick it on the wishlist.
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Originally Posted by 4691mls
My library has a pretty good selection, but some series have only a few books, or big gaps. Of course this works out well for the publishers - sometimes I just have to know what happens in the next book so I buy it rather than wait and hope the library will acquire it. Maybe the publishers are colluding with my library to make me buy books  |
I use the Interlibrary Loan process at my library to fill in the gaps. It does mean that I'm occasionally reading a book printed on paper, but I don't have to purchase it.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Personally, I would use the OverDrive Link plugin for calibre, which can search for and save a list of available and recommendable OverDrive books in any number of configured libraries, and supports Freading and 3M library as well. It is basically my default way of communicating with OverDrive.
Once it's set up, you can bind the search to a shortcut key and just periodically run it against all the books in calibre, it will run in the background and you get a cached list, aggregated amongst all the libraries you have access to. |
I have this installed in Calibre, but am not sure how to use it effectively.