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Originally Posted by Detour
I see so many people asking where to get free e-books all over the place and so rarely are they pointed toward their own public library website....
Does anyone else here use that resource? Do you tell others to use theirs?
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Detour,
The reality is that there are certain cities that offer ebooks through their local libraries. But that is not generally the case. Here in New Jersey, there are only about 30-35 towns and colleges, and about 4 county systems, that offer ebooks. My wild guess is that's a coverage rate of about 5% of the population. I'm in a big consortium of about 30 cities and it doesn't offer ebooks. My librarian said I'm the first to inquire, and she'll ask, but it's a feature that's unlikely to be added during these hard economic times.
So I think the reason you're seeing less talk about borrowing library ebooks is because they're only available to a lucky minority of people on this forum.
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Originally Posted by Detour
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That's a good link for audiobooks. A small subset will also offer ebooks. This is a better link if you want to
Search only for OverDrive ebooks.