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Originally Posted by Fbone

My library just joined this "global eBook club" and their first title is now available. It's a collaboration between Overdrive and participating publishers. The selected title for the next 2 weeks is Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates. If your library participates, you can borrow this title for free without a waiting list.

Here's their website for more info:
http://biglibraryread.com/

Thank you for sharing this; I like participating in Big Read events.

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

All library borrowing is free, as far as I've heard.

This is an international event and, worldwide, there are some libraries that charge a subscription fee, albeit not a pay-to-play fee per loaned item.

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

Thanks for that info, seems my library participates. It's a real treat to be able to instantly get a book from my library!

Fortunately, multiple library systems that I patronize are participating in this Big Read since the book's on hold at the one I tried first, NYPL. I ultimately borrowed it from Queens Public Library.