#libby is great

[ivynajspyder]

When I was a kid, I really only wanted to read books about other kids, and of course talking animals.

Now as an Adult, I really only want to read books about other adults, and of course talking animals.

[alessandriana]

Another tip: if you send your book to Kindle, you can return it early in the Libby app while still keeping it through the end of the original loan period in Kindle. That way, you can let the next person in line get it faster while still being able to read it yourself.

There is also another similar app called Hoopla-- in my experience the selection isn't as good (though they do have some oddball books Libby doesn't have), but there are fewer users so the lines are shorter.

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!

[theneverendingshow]

Libby via Metart

[queer-book-character-tournament]

You know what's ironic is all the people putting hate in the tags won't be able to vote on any future polls once they're blocked. They're ruining their chances of future victory.

Correct! But I just think that’s fair: if you’re going to ruin the fun for everyone else by being mean spirited why should you get to participate in the future fun? You don’t have to like every book submitted. There’s a lot of them; that’s very improbable. I certainly don’t like every book submitted. But it’s legitimately easier and less time consuming to say nothing than to be hateful, and also it is just literally not that deep.

These polls are silly and for fun and if you’re getting legitimately mad about them to the point that you’re hating on the competition it’s maybe time to log off. This is also a competition second and a convoluted way to recommend/find new books first. So before logging off maybe look into some of the other books submitted! Maybe one of them will calm you down! I mean this genuinely, there are so many books in round one every time this tournament happens. Read something you’ve never heard of that someone else loved enough to submit that got knocked out early because no one’s heard of it, and feel some connection to your fellow queer book fans and be reminded that this is a hobby. Reading/fandom/this tournament. It’s a hobby we’re all sharing so we should be nice to each other and appreciate that.

[reyreadersblog]

Idk if it's a good thing or not

[solar-nightengale]

Hi, I’m new in this tag kinda and new to meta-writing overall, but not only is the August brain rot really strong but one particular part of his entire character has been on my mind for a whole weekend. Please take this as mostly an offering of very spilled thoughts cause I couldn't keep them to myself anymore, LMAO. Particularly the thing that's on my brain is his guilt

I would also like to make note of and thank @ lizardthelizard And her glorious set of tags here for setting off my spiral tonight and also when she first sent them because my goodness this is truly an eye-opener. Thank you, buddy 💖

Gosh though, August’s guilt and self-criticism of himself and his actions is something that really fascinates me personally, and just thinking of it being the cause of what turns him back to wood is both mind-blowing but it just makes so much sense. He may be real because of magic but who’s to say it’s just the magical conditions that are holding him back and not the high as heck expectations that he feels were set for him and he set up for himself.

When it feels like you can't mess up sometimes it can feel like you're stuck in place Or that your screw ups means you can't change, that you're not good, that maybe you don't deserve to be considered good and that your various flaws are all that others would see you FOR!!

Maybe it's different to anxiety but idk it’s what caught my attention about him even more than what his character already offered up in s1!

He was given this like 

Idea that he needs to be "Brave" and "Truthful" and "Selfless" all the time or else he cannot be human 

Does it work like that? no, there's no human on EARTH that's all three of those things all the time, we've all had moments of weakness and gave in 

But what does he know? Most of his life he spent on his own and as a puppet, he was expected to understand the ways of being a human and GOODNESS knows how short a time he was with his dad before he was THRUST into a world and forced once again to stand on his own two feet and expected to just, you know, know how to act once again 

He's followed by expectations that he finds himself struggling to meet because he doesn't know what the limit is or how to meet them, and sometimes if not all of the times the temptations are just better and easier 

And it's expected!!!

He stepped into TLWM as a child with no idea of what he’s getting into with no prior knowledge, no adult, no nothing.

But omg, he drags himself down so much about it because he can’t meet those expectations the way he would want to and because of that because literally who did he have to tell him that it's all okay? That you can make mistakes and move on from them? That you can make up for your mistakes and forgive yourself for them?

Did he have anyone at all? Cause The show sure didn't show him having anyone

We see one woman in Thailand but even after he discovers he's turning into wood she's no longer around, so like she's probably about as fleeting of a relationship as anything else

Imagine going 28 years at first ignoring all your problems and then the horror and thoughts that you’re not good enough catch up to you one morning and the more you see yourself a failure, the more you sink into that spiral the harder it feels to breathe.

[frances-baby-houseman]

I have noticed a TRICK lately on a lot of new, extremely hyped books

which is that for the first 24 hours of checking out your libby hold, the book is libby-only. Many people do not like libby-only books, bc you have to read them on your phone/tablet and cannot read them on your kindle, so perhaps maybe you will go to Amazon and just buy the kindle version!

but then sure enough the next day the kindle version shows up in your libby. This just happened with Intermezzo! I am betting it also might happen on books for which our license is by number of checkouts rather than duration, bc I think people are more likely to return the book early without reading it if it's libby only and then the library is forced to buy a new copy bc it's been checked out 25 times or whatever. A TRICK.

Do not be tricked by Amazon and their grip on the big publishing houses! The Kindle version will come to you! Do not buy a kindle version and do not return it!

If it's an old book and libby-only, I'm sorry, you're probably stuck with it.

[winepresswrath]

i am very much enjoying the early Natsume thing where someone observes Natsume and Nyanko-sensei together and exclaims over what good friends they are only for both of them to recoil in indignation. and then they have to raise a baby together. the tropes start coming and they don't stop coming.

[hellogoodbyegirl]

Did someone order cute Supertramp?

[miabrown007]

my hobbies include:

reading books

buying books

browsing Libby for books I'm never going to read

[joyful-patient-faithful]

Local libraries getting rid of physical medias such as newspapers, magazines, cds, dvds, and audiobooks is turning experiencing art into a privilege instead of a right but I don't think you guys are ready for that conversation

[girderednerve]

do you think academic librarians feel about the public adulation for jstor the way i feel about the public attitude towards libby (i.e., negative)?

[daystarvoyage]

Hello everyone hope you have a ghoulish October, I can’t believe it’s the first week has passed and it just feels like fall has started. So I have a special video on my favorite show

TITLED the wonders and beauty that is ghost and Molly McGee video essay.

My new video has been finished that’s gonna focus on the ghost and Molly McGee, an underrated show of Disney that deserves more praise and recognize for its excellent culture rep,

Just I uploaded it after having dealing with the toxicity in certain spaces cause nothings stopping my grind, so I’ll be taking more on the positive side of animation since toxic fans have become puritans

So here’s the new video have a great one enjoy.

[theneverendingshow]

Libby via Metart

[memorydragon]

When you sit down to read an old childhood favorite book and expect covid flashbacks, but don't expect very Loud subtextual commentary about the AIDS epidemic that only put up the most token attempt to camouflage it so the book could actually be published.

[smallblueandloud]

i had a nice weekend and now it is time to go to bed! and start a fresh week! wahoo!

some things i'm looking forward to for tomorrow/this week:

rewatching husbands of river song :D and also continuing on to series 10! (i would like to make a post about series 9 at some point, stay tuned)

responding to my texts! i am accidentally ghosting several loved ones, whoops. i would like to do this tomorrow if possible just so i start my week off strong

i would like to get my queue started again. i miss seeing my reblogs.

tuesday is gonna be SUCH a chill day at work, i'm so excited

this is my last full week of work before i go home next week!

i would like to finish the 13 meets mickey draft this week. i think it is very feasible. maybe tomorrow i can have some nice quiet writing time after friend hangout, we'll see

i have been diving back into youtube which means it's time for me to bust out the libby app again. i'm not sure what book(s) i'm going to listen to but maybe i will finally finish re-reading persuasion? or, ooh, maybe i can find some cool nonfiction