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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
For a long time there were no state or county taxes for libraries in Texas (it was done on a city by city basis. It's changed in the last few years so even though we had some reciprocal lending, it's gotten much wider now. I can get a card in Austin (I'm in Cedar Park, nearby) or Houston (it has several ebook options). But every state is different with different rules. I pay for interlibrary loans to be shipped to my library, but I have a friend in Florida that doesn't have to pay for paperbacks to be shipped/borrowed locally (of course, there are taxes that pay for it, so technically she is paying somewhere.)
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I got the Houston card last year. I live in Texas, but not in Houston. My local library is a bit thin in my genres and was able to get it all done online free and good for 3 years I think. I didn't even know about it until I read about it somewhere.
I also have the Brooklyn one though as they get new books in my genres fast and have a lot of them also.
I used to have the Philly one, but dropped it as Brooklyn has a better selection and they don't make me send a check to renew, I can do it all online.
Then I got the chrome library extension plug in and now on every amazon book page and every goodreads book page it lists if the ebooks/audiobooks are available at any of my 3 libraries. Love it.
One has a 1 year expiry, one a 2 year and one a 3 year. I have to write down the dates as they are all different.