#BorrowBox

[whirling-ghost]

and as if I haven't complained enough today, both borrowbox and libby have stopped working on my phone

[francescaswords]

Pre-Orders for Rotting Trees are open, with a bonus Bezzina's short story for pre-orders!

Hello! Happy Halloween/five year anniversary of the return of My Chemical Romance to all who celebrate. I’m quite excited to announce that Rotting Trees will release as an ebook and a paperback on 31st January 2025 and you can pre-order it now from all major retailers at a very nice little discount. It will be available from your local bookshops too – just ask them to order it in for collection!…

[author-a-holmes]

Changeling Is In A Library

A digital library, to be exact, called Borrowbox! They are a library of Ebook and Audiobooks and they have purchased a copy of Changeling for their app.

I'm super excited. I might have squealed when I got the email about the purchase... but what does this mean for you?

Well, it's simple. If you have the Borrowbox App on any of your devices, you can borrow Changeling and read it entirely for free!

So if you've been curious about Changeling, now's the perfect time to go and check it out. Literally!

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Q&A with Richard on Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley.

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

BorrowBox: This book you borrowed six weeks ago expires in less than 24 hours. Do you want to, I dunno, maybe start it? Just a suggestion.

Me: *starts playing the 10 hour audiobook at 1pm with hope in my heart to defy linear time*

[plainselfraisingflour]

The difference between whether your visually read a book, read a book aloud, or listen to an audiobook as your first read of that book.

Short list of pros and cons:

Visually: Normal pace (can picture things in your head as you go, can re-read), potentially less audible voices (I don't gear the characters' voices much in my head), need to make time for just myself

Aloud: can read at my own pace if I read it to my fiancé who does not mind if I double back), takes a long time, not a fan of doing this when tired, can feel like a chore. When reading some voices who get a long monologue I often have to break down and say "okay I'm reading this in my voice not [character's] voice", gets my fiance more involved

Audiobook: takes a long time, can do while driving yayyyyy, I get fed the characters' voices which is not necessarily what I would have chosen for them

Pro of all: so many different ways to read for different reasons and times!

[mmolia]

in the UK authors get royalties from EPUBS being checked out from Libby and Borrowbox and the rest. This is YOUR tax money going to authors. Get a library card and support your local library.

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

[joelfe]

[bibliollama]

Stacking The Shelves #9

Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Reading Reality all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! My Amazon first read selection was: Susannah Nix – The Love Code I picked up one Kindle…

[manuelbs2017]

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[ezekiel13]

Hey guys

Are you in the UK?

Want to use the library but don’t want to go there/can’t get there/like reading or listening on your phones?

BorrowBox. It’s an official library app and all you need is the details of your library card! Don’t have a library card? They’re free. So is the app.

It’s just the ebooks, e audiobooks and epress that your local libraries have! And because it’s official library. It’s free

They'll look up and shout, "Get all the books and movies and music you could want streaming with our monthly service"

And I'll whisper back: library

[francescaswords]

Quick reminder you can get The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes wherever ebooks are sold, and you can request it on library apps like BorrowBox too!

[author-a-holmes]

hi! did you solicit/submit/apply/request/whatever to have borrowbox buy changeling, or did they do that all on their own? if the former, how so/what's the process/how can I do that for my book (or other books I s'pose if it's making a request like with a normal library)?

Hello Anon!

I distribute Changeling through Draft2Digital, and they offer books to the various library & borrowing based distribution platforms;

These include Bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, Hoopla, Borrowbox and Palace Market Place.

Draft2Digital also distribute to OverDrive, but I distribute to them through Kobo instead of Draft2Digital.

As far as I understand it, and someone please hop in and correct me if I'm wrong, while Draft2Digital offers the book to these distribution platforms, as they are libraries they stock the books/make them available at their own discretion?

Alternatively it's possible someone requested the book on Borrowbox, and that's when the purchase happened, I'll admit to not being 100% certain!

For more information about how Draft2Digital works with Library platforms, they have an extensive help section on their website; Draft2Digital & Library Platforms

I hope that's helpful!

[soracities]

Hi, do you or any of your followers have any recs for audiobooks? Preferably that are free, I just would like to listen to something while knitting but not sure how to start exploring since I don't know who are good narrators or things like that. Thanks so much!!

i don't listen to audiobooks unfortunately but any audiobook devotees please please send in your recs for anon, thank you 💗

[comic-tragedies-tragic-comedies]

Libby/OverDrive is available worldwide! Also, Libby and BorrowBox apps can both be used without WiFi or data, as long as your eBook or audiobook has already been downloaded. So you can borrow and download it, then turn off data to read or listen. 

Depending on your library you may also be able to borrow magazines from Libby, and/or newspapers from BorrowBox.

You can change the font, size of the text, and background colour of eBooks, and the speed of narration for audiobooks, in the accessibility settings for Libby, BorrowBox, and uLibrary. (If your library has comics and graphic novels available on Libby, you can zoom in to read different panels).

Because of being able to add multiple cards to Libby, you can also use this to have a family share one device, with each card having a different person’s loans. And you can set up your preferences to only show children’s titles. Or your library may have Libby set up with a Kids’ collection, which only shows their children's titles, without you needing to change anything. And if you search for something, it only brings up children's titles as results, if you’re worried about age restrictions. 

Different languages are available too:

PressReader has newspapers and magazines from different countries, in over 60 languages. Some newspapers have a listen button, where your device will read it aloud to you. 

Libby automatically works in the language your device is set in! 

Your library may have books in other languages available on Libby or BorrowBox. 

libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

[softness-and-shattering]

"This book is about a youbg lady avoiding marriage to a guy she doesnt like by dressing up as a guy and going to london and making guy friends and getting into duels! Now she yhinks shes found her father, how to reveal her true identity, and make the boy shes fallen for her see her as a real lady"

TELL A TRANS STORY YOU COWARDS YOURE 95% THERE ALREADY.