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Originally Posted by Catlady
Since none of my libraries offered Hoopla, I got a nonresident card from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library ($45/yr; less for senior citizens), which gives me six Hoopla checkouts per month. I feel like it's already paid for itself after a few weeks. As a bonus, Overdrive there includes quite a number of Recorded Books titles from my wish list that are part of the "always available" selections.
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I just found out indirectly that FLP is terminating access to Hoopla. If Charlotte Mecklenburg gets an influx of new nonresident members as a result, it could be worrisome as the cards won’t begin to cover the cost for heavy Hoopla users. I am very grateful to know of it as an alternative for now, however.
Philly is the second big city library I know which has dropped Hoopla; Boston ended access to its audiobooks (which is what I use it for) - and if big cities can’t afford or justify it, prospects seem dim. Fortunately for me, my local library starting offering it this past pandemic year, after I’d been told sometime earlier on asking that it was too expensive. But I worry; the amount it would cost just to listen to the Wodehouse novels I borrow would be staggering, and those are not my only borrows.