ALL YOUR LIBRARY CARDS ARE BELONG TO ME

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I am deeply enjoying the Libby app. Liz Salazar pointed out to me that you can use your Boston Public Library card to get access to reciprocal library networks, which I have now done for as many places as would let me. That combined with requesting a card for my dad’s address, I now have NINE LIBRARIES I CAN BORROW BOOKS FROM. I am ridiculously delighted.

I still can’t get over what a well-designed app Libby is. It’s easy to use and the interface is really attractive and intuitive. If you’re not on it, I highly recommend it, and in doing the trick to maximize your library access. The fact that I can put myself on the waitlist for a book I want from multiple institutions is wonderful. I’ve already been able to get MANY books I couldn’t find in the libraries I originally had cards for. Lately I’ve been trying to have a written book and an audiobook going at all times, one so I can physically read and one to listen to as I go about my day, and all these cards in Libby have been great for that. I’ve blazed through the first three Rivers of London books, an urban fantasy series that Matt Kamm recommended to me years ago and it finally struck me to dug into. They’ve been my audiobooks because the narrator, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, is so excellent, capturing the characters while doing all the regional accents.

I’ve run into a bit of a snag, since the fourth book in the series has a waitlist at all the institutions that have it. It’s also not on Hoopla, which is disappointing. And apparently only ONE of my nine libraries has Ruth Goodman’s How to Be a Victorian, which got taken away at the end of the borrowing period before I had finished it. But it only makes me want to have MORE LIBRARY CARDS, until I can have all the books I wanted!