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Originally Posted by rcentros
Is it better than Brooklyn or others who offer access for a fee? ... I don't know.
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Fbone had a collection size thread which hasn't been updated in a few years.
Searching Overdrive, I get:
Philadelphia - 27,976 all eBooks; 25365 English language Kindle
Pittsburgh - 76,707 all eBooks; 68,287 English languaue Kindle
Brooklyn - 119,670 all eBooks; 101,636 English language Kindle
I'm not sure you can easily get the numbers for the smaller collections like Freading and the Cloud Library, but I think the above numbers give a good picture. As a Pennsylvanian, I can and do get library cards from the larger collections in my state. Pittsburgh is good. But the library I borrow from the most is the one I pay, Brooklyn.
Of course, it's not just a matter of numbers. A lot depends on how close your taste is to that of the librarians.