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What did YOU just bring home from the library?
Shannon and Janice, thanks for all your help. I really do think it is a huge pain that we cannot lend MP3 to each other, like we could with DTB!Shannon, I will go to the link now. Thank you for including it.
Shanon, it is hard to see what will be available to me here in Belgium. I have sent a message to the support group. Wow, think if I could borrow books. I have an Ipod; does that mean I want MP3 or WMA audiobooks? Thanks again.
Gaeta1 wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I am not sure where you live Chrissie however, even if you do not have a local library but you do have internet you may be able join a library and get access to audiobooks and ebook..."Gaeta, free because you pay taxes. Now if you don't pay those taxes I see it as only reasonable that another fee is charged.
Chrissie wrote: "Shanon, it is hard to see what will be available to me here in Belgium. I have sent a message to the support group. Wow, think if I could borrow books. I have an Ipod; does that mean I want MP3 or ..."On my ipod I use WMA but I think I can run MP3 it just isn't as user friendly.
Shannon, now I have been told by one person that I cannot use WMA and another has said I could. If you are doing it I will assume it does work. Each response I get from the library is different. I don't feel like paying 35USD and then finding out that very few books are available. I am just waiting for that "ooops" those aren't allowed since you reside in Belgium. I am a bit uncomfortable with all these varied responses. Thanks for your input.
Judy wrote: "I listen to a lot of books on Overdrive as well as ClickOne which has their own format. If Overdrive is only available in America, that is a shame and a waste of a good product. ClickOne isn't as u..."Maybe eventually.
Judy wrote: "I listen to a lot of books on Overdrive as well as ClickOne which has their own format. If Overdrive is only available in America, that is a shame and a waste of a good product. ClickOne isn't as u..."Maybe, eventually.
Chrissie wrote: "Shannon, now I have been told by one person that I cannot use WMA and another has said I could. If you are doing it I will assume it does work. Each response I get from the library is different. I ..."What kind of ipod do you have? I wonder if that makes a difference. I use WMA on an ipod touch and my iphone. If you have an ipod shuffle that might be the problem (says I after a very quick google search). LEt me know what you have and I will see if I can help you further (although I am not a techie).
Shannon, I have an Ipod touch, and this works for you. So you think I can borrow both WMA and MP3 from Overdrive? It is the library in Philadelphia that allows international customers. It costs 35USD/yr . I am unsure if I pay per calender year or one whole year? They never answer this question. And I cannot see if the books will be restricted once I register that I live in Belgium. I am not getting any clear answers. STILL!!! Yeah, I am getting kind of pissed.
I can't see audiobooks being restricted and the nice thing about downloading audiobooks is that once you download them to the computer and then transfer to the ipod they stay on your ipod (they only expire on your computer)I live in Canada and have not used the4 Philadelphia library so cannot answer any of those questions for you. Hope you get answers soon!!!
If you have updated your ipod touch to iOS5 or iOs5.1 there will be one more step you need to do to get your audiobooks showing up in the book file on your ipod but if you have not updated your ipod then don't. I see no need to and your books will all load to the correct place no problem. I hate software updates.
Shanon, I have had no trouble with the latest uppdate. It just worked and nothing has changed in how I get the books there. Do you know if the One Click Digital is restricted to people who live in a particular place, for exampl the US or Canada? I will check it out. Thanks for the link.
Having finished If This Is a Man / The Truce(my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...)
I will now read Regeneration. Thank you Dawn for giving this to me AND thank you Jeanette for bringing it to my door! What great friends!!!! And now Jeanette has met Oscar! He sends a woof.
Speaking of the library - I just got the newsletter and they have an adult summer reading program. Read 6 books between June 25 and Sep 3, and receive your next annual membership free. I signed up. I shoud easily get that many books read by then.
I may have been mistaken. I thought I read that you would receive your membership for reading 6 books. But the actual page for the program says that for every 6 books you read, you are entered into a draw for prizes. I can't find anything online about the membership. I'll have to go back to the email and see what it says there.
Janice, my fingers are crossed for you.
How much does the membership usually cost? Hope you win!
Maria wrote: "How much does the membership usually cost? Hope you win!"It's $7.50 a year CDN - just a nominal fee.
Today I picked up two books from one library,
(group read) and
(dogs on the cover). I have to go back tomorrow to get
for a buddy read.From another library I did return 7 items, and picked up 9 holds (plus bought 1 book):
and
. All are for group reads or challenges.Thank goodness I'm off work tomorrow!!
Do come up for a breath of air from time to time jaxnsmom, and let us know that you're still around. LOL! That's a lot of reading! I can see some for the rainbow challenge in there.
I got over-excited and put too many books on hold and a bunch came in at once. I know I'll have to renew some.Don't you ever go overboard, knowing you can't read all those books, but simply unable to resist the siren's song calling to you? I have a feeling there are quite a few members whose addiction leads to book overload :)
jaxnsmom wrote: "I got over-excited and put too many books on hold and a bunch came in at once. I know I'll have to renew some.Don't you ever go overboard, knowing you can't read all those books, but simply unab..."
Are you referring to the 100+ books, ebooks, and audiobooks that I own and haven't read yet? LOL!
Janice wrote: "Are you referring to the 100+ books, ebooks, and audiobooks that I own and haven't read yet? LOL!"That would be it! Shhh...don't tell anyone, but when I went to the library to pick up my one hold, I bought 10 books :) So I'm pretty sure I'm catching up to you. I think we need a "You Own It, Now Read It" Toppler.
jaxnsmom wrote: "Janice wrote: "Are you referring to the 100+ books, ebooks, and audiobooks that I own and haven't read yet? LOL!"That would be it! Shhh...don't tell anyone, but when I went to the library to pic..."
LOL! So true, jaxnsmom, like the idea for the new toppler.
jaxnsmom wrote: "Janice wrote: "Are you referring to the 100+ books, ebooks, and audiobooks that I own and haven't read yet? LOL!"That would be it! Shhh...don't tell anyone, but when I went to the library to pic..."
What a great idea for a toppler - or a long challenge.
I just took The Book of Useless Informationback to the library but i didn't have time to stop and get new ones.
I haven't been to the library since early May. I kind of miss it :(
I missed you guys too Judy :) I doubt I'll be toppling this time. I signed up to do a review copy clean up with a bunch of other bloggers so I'm kinda doing that "toppler" this month. Maybe next time though.
Today I went to library to pick up the audiobooks Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons, and print book The Amateur by Edward Klein.While I was there I passed by a display of books and ended up with two because their covers appealed to me: All Other Nights by Dara Horn (historical fiction set during the Civil War) and Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (also historical fiction), and one because of the title: Dog Days, Raven Nights by John Marzluff (a nonfiction account of newly married biologists studying the behavior of ravens in Maine, where they used sled dogs). I liked the title because it reminded me of my sweet reading companion, Raven the Weimaraner, who passed away a few months ago.
You have interesting books there! Re Raven Nights, I have read several books by Bernd Heinrich. All have been great. The guy in your book worked under the tutelage of Heinrich. I can recommend Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival and The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology. I have bought but not read A Year In The Maine Woods.Dara Horn's book The World to Come is very good. Pls tell me about the one you have gotten. Thanks.
Today I brought home
and
. All ya books, but most of the books I wanted have to be borrowed from other libraries, so I'll have to wait a few weeks to get them.
Rachel wrote: "Today I brought home and . All ya books, but most of the books I wanted have to be borrowed from other libraries, so I'll have t..."Feed sounds interesting! I never used to read YA until late last year, so I'm always keeping an eye open.
Judy wrote: "Rachel, have you had your eye on Beauty Queens or did jaxnsmom influence you with her post?"My librarian suggested it, she is the best librarian ever. The cover had me as soon as she showed it to me though.
Rachel wrote: "Today I brought home and . All ya books, but most of the books I wanted have to be borrowed from other libraries, so I'll have t..."I love Libba Bray! I haven't read Beuty Queens yet though, I do recommend trying her Gemma Doyle series if you haven't read it!
Picked up
and am not sure what I think of it yet. Its not wowing me but neither is it making me want to stop reading...
I have four audiobooks awaiting me at the library, but the Bay Bridge across the Chesapeake Bay was shut down today for an emergency inspection, and I could not get across to my books. Oh, well, tomorrow there will probably be five waiting for me. P.S. They say the bridge is "safe."
Tonight at the library I picked up nine holds:
and
for September reads. Also
because when I was looking up 'Still Life' this also came up and I liked the cover :)(I also bought fifteen books in the sale area) (I wish tiny print was an option for the guilty admissions.
jaxnsmom, between your library holds and the 15 you bought, it might be a tad too quiet around here. LOL!
Unfortunately, I spend as much time on GR talking about reading as I spend reading. LOL
jaxnsmom wrote: "Unfortunately, I spend as much time on GR talking about reading as I spend reading. LOL"I know, I do the same thing!!!!! If I do not have Internet I read MUCH more.
Nice books. Some of them I would like to read. Oh jeez, how can I read all the books I want to read. I get all stressed up.
I agree - so many books, so little time.
Susan wrote: "I have four audiobooks awaiting me at the library, but the Bay Bridge across the Chesapeake Bay was shut down today for an emergency inspection, and I could not get across to my books. Oh, well, t..."I finally got to the library today and had six books waiting for me. Four audiobooks: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, to finish up the trilogy; The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, to finish my rereading of that trilogy; I Curse the River of Time by Per Petersen (love that title, and loved his Out Stealing Horses; and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, because I'm on a MA kick right now (or I was before I was a Hunger Games and Ruiz Zafon kick). Also two books in print The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, which I have already started, and Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones, nonfiction.
Susan, I thought To Siberia was even better than Out Stealing Horses. Pls tell me what you think of I Curse the River of Time. I very much want to read In the Wake, which is about the author's loss of family when the MS Estonia sank in 1994. This was a huge catastrophy in Scandinavia, when it happened. I was livining in Stockholm at the time.
I picked up a hold at the library, The Sugar Camp Quilt. Our IRL book club is discussing the book on Sept 27th and it's due back at the library on the 28th. Hehehe - great timing.And I stopped by the books for sale, and bought The Summoning. That Bentley Little has caught me hook, line, and sinker!
Welcome Kelly! Let us know what you think of the Stephen King book. I'm always on the lookout for sci-fi/fantasy I haven't heard of for Mr Rusalka.I predict that once you get through those two, you may have a few more on hold after reading these threads ;)
I'm not picking anything up at the library any time soon (I hope!), but I am returning 11 books today. Not to worry, I still have 25 checked out :D
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I don't know if it's considered copyright infringement to rip an audiobook cd to your computer or not. I suspect that it is. It would be like buying a DTB and photocopying it.
It would be nice if we could share, or pass on audiobooks in mp3 format, like we do with DTB's.