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and as if I haven't complained enough today, both borrowbox and libby have stopped working on my phone
#i updated my phone#i deleted/reinstalled#i rang the bloody library ffs#i can't function without my media#you expect me to live? in the real world???#no#borrowbox#libby
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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!!
#support your local library#library#public libraries#support libraries#craft#crafts#fibre arts#fibre crafts#knitting#crochet#craftblr#crochet pattern#knitting pattern#yarnblr#yarn crafts#free pattern#Borrowbox#UK libraries#UK crafters#Crochet magazines#Knitting magazines#e magazine#magazine
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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!…
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#Apple Books ebook#Bezzina&039;s Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities#book pre-orders#BorrowBox#ebook pre-orders#Francesca Astraea#Hoopla#Kindle pre-orders#Patreon creator#Rotting Trees#Rotting Trees by Francesca Astraea#YA author on Patreon#YA book pre-orders#YA on GoodReads#YA on StoryGraph#young adult author#young adult contemporary fantasy fiction novel#young adult fiction
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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??
#their selection is pretty terrible too#I'm trying to get back into reading & there's a list of maybe 10 books I'm interested in (many of them like Penguin classics)#and they only had 3 of them#one of the ones they didn't have was fucking Frankenstein??? how??#Mine#library#borrowbox
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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!
#Bookblr#Library#Library Books#Borrowbox#Library Sales#Indie Author#Indie Writing#Self Published#Bookblr Community#Writeblr#Writeblr Community#Changeling#Fey Touched Book One#Sales#Free Book#'Free' Book
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Q&A with Richard on Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley.
#richard armitage#lucinda riley#atlas: the story of pa salt#new audiobook#audiobook#q&a#borrowbox#Youtube#video#news
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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*
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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!
#reading#read aloud#blog idea#normal hobbies#audiobooks#reaidng text#stories#storytelling#borrowbox#library#local library
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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.
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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…
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#ben aaronovitch#borrowbox#grace dent#hannah gold#jennette mccurdy#jeremy clarkson#katherine may#kindle#library#matt haig#matthew reilly#philippa gregory#prince harry#r. f. kuang#sarah gibbs#sarah j. maas#suzannah nix#tbr
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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!
#The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes#ebooks#libraries#use your local library#BorrowBox#Kindle#Nook#ebook publishing#bookish#YA fantasy#high fantasy#YA novel
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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
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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!
#Asks#Asks Answered#Libraries#Library Books#Library Distribution#Draft2digital#Kobo#Overdrive#Borrowbox#Indie Author#Indie Publisher#Self Published#Books#Bookblr#Writeblr
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Caraballeda, una novela impregnada por el trópico caribeño, la vida de los turistas y vacacionistas en un lugar increíble, te invito a leerla. #amazon #ebook #book #paperbacks #kobo #vivlio #thalia #smashwords #scribd #Barnesandnoble #OverDrive #Bibliotheca #BorrowBox #Tolino #apple #playas #beach #caribe #LaGuaira #80s #turismo #hoteles #Sheraton (en Venezuela) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8aKrWv_SP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Hey hey hey, if you live in Ireland, and you hav a library card, check out BorrowBox. It’s a free app that has a database of books you can borrow from libraries digitally!
Libraries all across the country are connected by it so if you can’t find a book in your local library, you can check BorrowBox and borrow it there.
It works like a real library in that if someone else has borrowed a book you have to wait until they return it, but you can reserve books or put them on your reading list to borrow later.
I feel like public libraries don’t get enough hype. Like, you’re telling me all I have to do is give you my name and address and promise to bring the books back and I’m allowed to take as many as i want??? And I can check them out over and over again if I need to??? And I only pay if I damage or lose the book???? If this is where my tax money is going then please keep on taxing.
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