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Old 06-06-2023, 08:59 AM   #1
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Search across Overdrive and BorrowBox libraries?
Hi all. I'm a member of several Overdrive libraries and several BorrowBox-using ones. Is there any easy way of searching for a book across all the libraries in one go? I use the overdrive.com website to search those libraries but I can't see a way of hitting the BorrowBox ones at the same time. Any suggestions gratefully received.

I use Calibre by the way if there's any cunning plugin that would do this for me.

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Old 06-06-2023, 01:02 PM   #2
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I don't think it offers a direct search, but I really like the library browser extension: https://www.libraryextension.com/. It's very nice for browsing books on storygraph (or a long list of other websites) and being able to quickly see if it's in your local library. Not completely bug-free, but very useable and the developers are very responsive.
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Old 06-06-2023, 01:30 PM   #3
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I don't think it offers a direct search, but I really like the library browser extension: https://www.libraryextension.com/. It's very nice for browsing books on storygraph (or a long list of other websites) and being able to quickly see if it's in your local library. Not completely bug-free, but very useable and the developers are very responsive.
Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted as I'm usually looking at a book on Amazon and wondering if it's in a library. They didn't have one of the libraries I belong to so I've sent them a suggestion to add it.

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Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted as I'm usually looking at a book on Amazon and wondering if it's in a library. They didn't have one of the libraries I belong to so I've sent them a suggestion to add it.

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Glad to be able to help! I also requested a missing library when I first started using it and they added it within a few days.
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I use Calibre by the way if there's any cunning plugin that would do this for me.
Overdrive Link does exactly what you want:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=187919
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Overdrive Link does exactly what you want:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=187919
Thank you that's certainly close but it doesn't look like it covers BorrowBox libraries.

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