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Old 02-12-2011, 10:08 PM   #46
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Sez you! I checked out a bunch of them--this is where I feed my Harlequin addiction...
But it does no good for those of us who want to actually read a book instead of lusting after it.
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There were a few books at Cleveland that I was interested in, mainly the True Blood series. It was a pretty lengthy wait for all the books to become available. Overall, even though Clevnet has 20,000+ ebooks, I don't find much of interest there.
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Old 02-12-2011, 10:16 PM   #48
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The one thing I do have an issue with at FLP is the small waiting list. You can only put 10 eBooks on hold. And given the wait times on a lot of the more popular eBooks, I would like more holds.
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... Interested to know how other libraries are doing with the availability of ebooks ...
UK libraries that have e-books.
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You should be picky. It means you cannot read these series without buying some of the books. They should look at what they have and what's out there before getting incomplete series.
To be entirely fair, some series aren't entirely available in ebook format. Try getting all the Company books by Kage Baker. The first one was only available as a pdf in a Tor giveaway years ago.
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To be entirely fair, some series aren't entirely available in ebook format. Try getting all the Company books by Kage Baker. The first one was only available as a pdf in a Tor giveaway years ago.
But, the library should have the entire series be it in eBook or in a combination of eBook and pBook depending on the availability of the eBook in ePub.
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But, the library should have the entire series be it in eBook or in a combination of eBook and pBook depending on the availability of the eBook in ePub.
With ILL, all things are possible...
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Old 02-14-2011, 11:19 AM   #53
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My library charges $5 per item - it's often cheaper to buy the book (especially since then I don't have to read it within three weeks, starting with the unknown arrival date).
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Old 02-14-2011, 01:05 PM   #54
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I use both the Fairfax County and Loudoun County libraries and Fairfax has been adding a decent amount of books since the first of the year. I've been able to check out a nice selection of romance/chick lit, history, knitting and crochet books. The selection of science fiction/fantasy novels is poor but it's always been that way.
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Old 02-14-2011, 02:35 PM   #55
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But it does no good for those of us who want to actually read a book instead of lusting after it.
Each book has a wait list of 4 or 5 people, so obviously the library is getting what the users want. (anyway, not all romances are sexy but I don't think you needed me to tell you that)
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Each book has a wait list of 4 or 5 people, so obviously the library is getting what the users want. (anyway, not all romances are sexy but I don't think you needed me to tell you that)
But to be honest, it would have been better had DC library gotten in a selection of different categories of books so people that don't read what they got might have something available they do read.
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But to be honest, it would have been better had DC library gotten in a selection of different categories of books so people that don't read what they got might have something available they do read.
Can't argue there. I wish they'd beef up their SF too.
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But to be honest, it would have been better had DC library gotten in a selection of different categories of books so people that don't read what they got might have something available they do read.
I agree with that. It is quite different than saying the romances are worthless.
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I agree with that. It is quite different than saying the romances are worthless.
I feel that whoever is the buying eBooks at he DC library is dropping the ball.
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:03 AM   #60
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My local library does not happen to be a very good source for ebooks. The offering is already skewed to about 70% audio books versus 30% text. That and for the ebooks well over half are in the children or young adult category. So I find that the Philadelphia Free Library is by far my best option.
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