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Old 09-23-2016, 06:54 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater View Post
But don't you have to create entries in Calibre for "empty books" for anything you want to search for? (Rather than just having a search box to search all libraries)
If you are looking for particular books then you can add an empty book entries and search based on those. But the plugin also has a book discovery functions.

You can select any books in calibre by any authors you like and it will find any other books by the same authors available for you to borrow and list them in a discovered book table. You can then pick the ones of interest to you and either add them as new "empty books" automatically or borrow them right from the discovered book list by right clicking on an entry.

There is also a discover by keywords function if you are looking for a topic rather than an author.

These functions work across all of the lending libraries and providers that you configure in the plugin. For example, the Free Library of Philadelphia has e-books available in OverDrive, Freading, and Hoopla. The plugin can find books at all of these services with a single search.
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