#BorrowBox

[whirling-ghost]

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

[fandomweasel]

Attention UK crafters!!

Do you dabble in the fibre arts (knitting/crochet)?

Are you interested in venturing into the world of wool?

Do you want to support your local library? And hate Amazon

WELL DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!

Borrowbox is a free to download app that allows you to access ebooks, audiobooks and ePress for free!

All you need to do is use your library card (if you need a library card, I've always visited mine but keep me honest if there are other ways)

With a library card in hand you can set up an account on Borrowbox and access your local library via your phone!

Now for ye UK crafters, listen up!

Borrowbox also has ePress which includes knitting and crochet magazines! Aka FREE PATTERNS!!

It's an absolute goldmine!!

Thank you libraries!!

[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!…

[cold-knees]

So I just got a new library card (haven't had one since primary school) so I could get Ebooks and audiobooks from the app they use (BorrowBox) - tell me why I have to *reserve* the book I want and wait til someone else has returned it when it's a *digital copy*? Why would someone else having access to a digital file prohibit me from accessing it at the same time??

[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*

[femmehysteria]

I've seen lots of posts promoting Libby and Overdrive as a free kindle alternative to support their local libraries, which is great but very US centric.

You can sign into BorrowBox through your local library and get ebooks and audiobooks. It's available in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Singapore and Malaysia.

you can also sign up for a library online through the app

Feel free to add on to this if you know of other services like this for different countries

[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]

[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!

[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…

[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

[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!

[manuelbs2017]

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