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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
If anyone has any tips on how to use the 3M system better that would be great too.
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1. Searching through the
downloadable 3M PC Cloud App is somewhat better than searching with your library's web link. The Advanced Filter has a couple more features, like searching by reader rating, but still is bad. A more helpful cloud feature appears when clicking on "Categories." This allows drill down to the point where you can see, for example, all books on the history of a particular country. In a collection of 3,500 titles, there will not be a lot!
2. This might be less a tip than a warning, but: When you reserve a book, they tell you the number of days until it becomes available. This estimate will be wildly inaccurate. Worse, for a long time, there was no email notification when the book become available, so it was almost impossible to pick up a reserve. One reason I mention this is that the two 3M collections I use started email notifications at different times. There could be a risk that a new collection won't have email configured.
3. Since you apparently will soon have several collections available to you, and if you often know the title of the book you want, look into this:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=187919