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If you want to read best sellers from five years ago they are great. If you are willing to work the queue you can get new stuff, just not on your time table. If
by flatline 6y ago
If you want to read best sellers from five years ago they are great. If you are willing to work the queue you can get new stuff, just not on your time table. If you are into anything the least bit esoteric and/or aren’t organized with your returns or the waitlist they are frustrating. I have always had a love/hate relationship with libraries.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoI have unusual reading interests and don't normally read best sellers, so I use inter-library loan a lot. I can normally get what I want through that, although sometimes I have to wait a couple of weeks for them to find/ship the book to my library.
- dredmorbius 6y agoILL (or regional equivalents) are useful. Though LibGen + Gutenberg + Archive.org are increasingly preferable, especially for obscure interests.
- kens 6y agoIf you are looking for esoteric library books and in California, try Link+. It lets you get books from many libraries, including university libraries. My tastes are very, very obscure but Link+ often finds the 1953 computer book that I'm looking for. (Other areas may have similar inter-library loan services.) https://csul.iii.com/ https://csul.iii.com/