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Originally Posted by elfwood
Dordale,
You are right, eNYPL has almost 12000 e-books in the catalog, but if you run a search on these parameters
adobe ebooks/English/last 180 days
you'll see they've added only 85 titles
They've obviously changed the ratio of e-books to audiobooks in the last couple of years.
elfwood
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elfwood--
Unfortunately, you'll find this is true of almost all libraries. By virtue of being a California resident, I have access to quite a few libraries. Most libraries carry far more audio books than ebooks. In fact, there are several libraries that don't offer any ebooks at all.
I do like to listen to audio books as well as read ebooks, so I'm glad I have downloadable access to them from my library(ies) but do wish that the downloadable ebook collections were more robust.
About a year ago, I paid the non-resident fee of $100 to join the NYPL because of their superior collection of ebooks they have. I'm a little disappointed that it sounds like NYPL is no longer offering this, so shortly my membership there will expire.
I do hope that with more and more libraries adding ePub to their collections and more and more dedicated reading devices supporting ePub, we'll see ebook collections at libraries start to grow.
dordale
