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Originally Posted by The dane
My work mate said to look on line for books in our 3 local librarys! He was right the 2 books i purchased over the weekend are there! One book says 3 available the other says wait/hold!
So how do library ebooks work? How can i take something back thats not really there? And whats the point in buying if i can download from home from the library!
Would it be as normall (2 weeks to return) do u return or delete?
Cheers
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As others have posted, the process by which you'll borrow a digital library book depends both upon your device and upon the elending platform(s) your library uses.
Most libraries have posted on their websites instructions for borrowing ebooks as well as the ebook lending periods. If you are the type who prefers to talk through the process, then discussing the process with the work mate you mentioned, or a visit or phone call to the library might prove useful.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have a bit of an obsession about reading a series in the correct order, so I'd have to reach the middle of a series and then find that the library didn't have the next book, or that there was a long wait for it. That's why I prefer to buy books; for me the cost is negligible.
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I, too, read series in the correct order, but my first preference is to borrow, rather than buy, books that I don't necessarily want to reread or keep in my permanent collection. Therefore, I've found it useful to do a bit of planning before tucking in to a series. Specifically:
- I borrow and/or reserve multiple books in a given series at once, adding to that queue as I finish each book
- I am flexible about both where I borrow, library-wise (as I belong to multiple library systems), and how I borrow, platform-wise (e.g., 3M Cloud Library, Axis 360, and Overdrive)
This has worked extremely well for me, except when two books in Charlie Higson's The Enemy series were unavailable to borrow, except as hard copies. In that instance, I borrowed the hard copies from the public library. (Shocking, how thick and heavy they were! Even the longest of ebooks, of course, is only as weighty as one's ereading device.)