Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
My library e-holds are coming in shockingly fast these days. I feel like I check my hold position, discovered I’m tenth in line and the anticipated wait is 17 weeks, and the next morning I get a notification that the book is available. It’s been delightful in many cases but a bit of a challenge to manage. I am adoring the new feature that allows me to postpone a book when it becomes available without losing my position in the queue. It’s a genius innovation by Overdrive and is making my borrowing life far less stressful.
Here’s what’s arrived this week:
Missed Translations by Sopan Deb (Book Depository)
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (Book Depository)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (Book Depository)
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener (Book Depository)
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (Book Depository)
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore (Book Depository)
What are you reading this week?
I really want to read Oona Out of Order but it doesn’t seem all that easy to find here.
I hope it becomes accessible soon!
Our CEO sends out regular updates and is thrilled to see hundreds of new e-registrants downloading material. She shared a comment from a customer in her eighties, thrilled with the ability to enlarge font and adjust brightness. It’s not my preferred way to read books but it’s been a lifesaver for some!
As for what I’m reading…The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel. I haven’t read the first two in the trilogy, but a doorstop of a book for $15 at Costco during isolation seemed a no-brainer!
That’s great news from your CEO! I’m alternating between physical books and ebooks because reading on my Kobo isn’t my favourite thing to do but it does mean I get access to new books.
That new Overdrive feature is brilliant, isn’t it? I’ve actually been able to read some of my reserves!
Yes, for the first time I feel like I have control over my ebooks! Love it!
My library holds are all physical books, and they’ve been mounting up like crazy since March 13. Up to 71 now, and I have to go put them on hold-hold soon or there will be an avalanche of them when This Is Over.
I rarely get e-books from the library, and I try to be especially circumspect about them since, unlike physical books, the publishers permit only a limited number of borrows on each licence they sell to the libraries. With a physical book, I order anything that I MIGHT like, but with e-books, I really want to be sure.
Yes, managing the holds is going to be a challenge once the libraries reopen! The BC government advised that libraries are cleared to reopen later this month so I’m eager to hear what plans the Vancouver library comes up with.
I’ve not read any of these but the Ann Tyler one is on my shelf. The Overdrive feature you mention is wonderful. I love it too.
The right feature for these times, I think!
Don’t have libraries and these facilities but I am now going back to some of the classics which I’ve neglected upto now.
Excellent! Enjoy.