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Old 02-15-2018, 01:38 AM   #46
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Decades ago my then local library had a bookcase where patrons could freely contribute their old romance books and pick up new ones. It was always at least two-thirds full of a constantly changing variety without costing the library more than shelf space.
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Old 02-15-2018, 04:26 AM   #47
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Thanks for reminding me to check out my library's new ebooks and get on the hold list for the new romance book I wanted to read!
Please don't. Do it for the people who don't read romance. help your library be a more fair place for people who do not read romance to go.
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Old 02-15-2018, 08:03 AM   #48
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I was curious so I went to my libraries OD site and checked the breakdown for eBooks (no audio) and this is what I got... Didn't seem too bad to me (of course it relies on publishers placing books in the right categories). They also do Cloud Library, but I didn't check that.

Fiction 66,064
Nonfiction 42,822

Romance 28,432
Juvenile Fiction 18,532
Literature 14,685
Mystery 14,668
Historical Fiction 12,339
Fantasy 11,618
Juvenile Literature 9,625
Young Adult Fiction 9,241
Thriller 8,861
Suspense 7,387
Biography & Autobiography 6,207
History 5,345
Comic and Graphic Books 5,225
Cooking & Food 4,878
Science Fiction 4,589
Humor (Fiction) 4,382
Business 3,781
Young Adult Literature 3,624
Travel 3,218
Health & Fitness 3,046
Self-Improvement 3,005
Religion & Spirituality 2,938
Juvenile Nonfiction 2,885
plus a bunch more smaller categories
Romance has infiltrated many other genres. There may be far fewer than 4,589 SF books available for those who will not read SF/Romance.
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Please don't. Do it for the people who don't read romance. help your library be a more fair place for people who do not read romance to go.
My library seems to add books from all sorts of genres and I definitely want them to keep adding romance books. The book in question released two days ago. I added it to my hold list last night and I'll get to read it in approximately 120 days. With each checkout lasting two weeks, I'm far back on the list to get it.
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My library seems to add books from all sorts of genres and I definitely want them to keep adding romance books. The book in question released two days ago. I added it to my hold list last night and I'll get to read it in approximately 120 days. With each checkout lasting two weeks, I'm far back on the list to get it.
Okay what book is it? This romance fan wants to know.

My library caters to young people more than anything. So very little romance or anything more adult that's why I have a membership to Brooklyn and a my lifetime card to FLP. My Tennessee card finally expired late last year. It was my main source to romance books.



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Okay what book is it? This romance fan wants to know.

My library caters to young people more than anything. So very little romance or anything more adult that's why I have a membership to Brooklyn and a my lifetime card to FLP. My Tennessee card finally expired late last year. It was my main source to romance books.
How do you get a lifetime card for FLP? Also, you can call the different Tennessee libraries to try to get an over the phone renewal. Just keep calling until you find someone willing to help. I've done that when I've been too far away/unable to go to the library to renew.
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How do you get a lifetime card for FLP? Also, you can call the different Tennessee libraries to try to get an over the phone renewal. Just keep calling until you find someone willing to help. I've done that when I've been too far away/unable to go to the library to renew.
Years ago remember they offered veterans and elderly people free library cards. My husband is a veteran. We're grandfathered in. They don't add many new overdrive books anymore but they have Hoopla and Freading.

My old Tennessee library doesn't do out of state. I already checked.

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Old 02-15-2018, 10:45 AM   #53
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Romance has infiltrated many other genres. There may be far fewer than 4,589 SF books available for those who will not read SF/Romance.
True, but the same can be said in reverse (perhaps to a smaller extent). Under Romance you'll sometimes find Mysteries, Thrillers, SciFi and Fantasy that aren't what one would generally consider a Romance (no HEA or HFN, etc). Publishers have been doing the "put it in as many genre's as it might remotely fit in" thing for quite a while now.
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When my library didn't have a specific book I wanted they located a copy in another library and got an interlibrary loan of it for me. Do your libraries have a similar program?
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When my library didn't have a specific book I wanted they located a copy in another library and got an interlibrary loan of it for me. Do your libraries have a similar program?
Interlibrary loan for eBooks? Haven't seen that offered before. For pBooks, sure I think most libraries do that.
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Valentines Day needs to go away so this sort of thing doesn't happen.
The thought occurs to me, Jon, that if you start writing to the Vatican now, and successfully argue your case that St Valentine should be removed from the Calendar of Saints, they might get around to doing it ... in about 500 years .
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The thought occurs to me, Jon, that if you start writing to the Vatican now, and successfully argue your case that St Valentine should be removed from the Calendar of Saints, they might get around to doing it ... in about 500 years .
From what I've read, the Vatican would have to first determine WHICH St. Valentine, the day is named for! There are at least 2, possibly 3 St. Valentines.
(two of them might, or might not, be the same guy).

That should add at least another 500 years to your estimate.
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Valentines day was a created by the greeting card people, the flower people, and the candy people.

We don't need one day a year to show other loved ones that we love them. And we 100% do not need this day for libraries to waste their budget on tacky romance novels.
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Valentines day was a created by the greeting card people, the flower people, and the candy people.

We don't need one day a year to show other loved ones that we love them. And we 100% do not need this day for libraries to waste their budget on tacky romance novels.
So are you happy with libraries wasting their budget on tacky romance novels the other 364 days a year?
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So are you happy with libraries wasting their budget on tacky romance novels the other 364 days a year?
What would be best is to more evenly buy different genres.
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