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Originally Posted by MartyTX
I realize this is a "golden oldie" post, but I'd like to chime in.
The Amarillo library consortium has had Overdrive for at least 4 years. Last year, it added 3M Cloud to the digital offerings.
Couldn't access my Overdrive account in Amarillo last week. Tried several times to no avail. Called the library and was told they decided to drop Overdrive and just offer 3M. "Overdrive just wasn't working out in Amarillo". I agree that the waiting times were very long. However, to me "long lines" mean that something is very popular. My guess is that this was simply a cost cutting move for the city.
No real problem because Houston (10X the population of Amarillo) offers free Overdrive to all Texas residents.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded for over a century. Literature is indeed a fine art. It's too bad that a skate board park can trump the library in the city budget.
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Sorry to hear that! After a year, I find that most of my borrows are with the Overdrive consortium that my library dropped and I was able to rejoin for free as a county resident. I can sometimes get books faster through my 3M library, but I find they still have long waits too. That was one of the benefits they claimed for moving. Initially I found that they would honor requests for additions to the catalog within 2 days. However after a few months many of my requests now go ignored. That was another benefit they claimed for switching.
3M has significantly improved their reading apps for iOS since last year so at least reading via tablet is more enjoyable. However, I still prefer to download via ADE and transfer to one of my e-ink readers.
You might want to read this other thread about 3M. I'm wondering what the future will be like for libraries which use their system.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=266081