Can I rant at myself? Because I lost track and let my annual membership to Brooklyn Public Library on Overdrive lapse. Ugh! I didn't budget for it, either, so I will have to wait until July to rejoin. My local library has only a fraction of the romance books that BPL has, and is slow to get new releases. It's not like my kindle library has any shortage of tbr books I've picked up, but I love to browse the old Harlequins/Silhouettes on BPL.
My library has an awful e-book selection too. Is Brooklyn Public libraries available for anyone? Can you provide the link?
I'm going to copy your post and create a new thread to make this conversation more visible for others.
The membership page is here: www.bklynlibrary.org/use-the-library/borrow. Annual membership for out of state residents is $50. It is well worth it to me because I read so much and they have a huge selection of ebooks. I only use Overdrive, but there are other apps you can use, like Hoopla, for certain selections.
There are other big libraries that accept out of state members, but after researching them I chose BPL. I know another one that is used by a lot of people is the Philadelphia Library. I would advise anyone who is looking into it to compare the selections and the ebook catalogs to find the one that best fits your reading interests. The Overdrive website has a list of libraries that take out-of-state members for their ebook catalogs.
Well, I tried to get into the Amazon forum last night and while I could read all of the various posts I was unable to respond or create a new thread. I thought we had until 10/6!!! I would think with all of the different types of forums, movies, Kindle and so on they'd be making a pile of $$$. But I guess not. I can't tell you how many different things, not books, that I learned about on the romance forum and ended up buying, at Amazon, that I've really enjoyed and used. You could pose a question or problem and someone always had a great item that would help or be a solution.
Just placed an order with Book Depository. Amazon watch my credit card walk out the door and kiss my ass!!! Jerks.
Yes, I think we should all boycott them!! Even if they thought it wasn't worth their while to keep both sites going after they purchased Goodreads, they could have kept the Amazon forums going and called it a public service. They certainly make enough money through sales and if there is an upkeep cost it would be a drop in the ocean to them!
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I wonder if this will affect all the self-publishing authors? Some of them only post their books on Amazon but I'd like to spend money elsewhere.
I have tried to buy all my books from Amazon because if I clicked on it, it would say "you purchased this item on ....." and I liked that. I have looked around before but realized that some books are only available on Ammy.
I've been getting my books from Amazon because my family gives me gift certificates for Christmas and Birthdays. Its a wonderful gift but limits me to Amazon.
Ms.D. - I felt the same way! Why didn't they allow us to continue to "chat" until the 6th and why were some seeing their banner stating they were closing a few days sooner than others? I'm going to go through each page and copy down the threads that interested me and perhaps transfer them here someday. Oh, today is the 6th! I better get to it if they're even still around...