#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!…

[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*

[thefantasticone21]

Xtreme Sabotage Now Available For Purchase

I am happy to officially announce that my fifth book, Xtreme Sabotage, is now available for purchase! This has taken me almost four years to complete and publish, and I appreciate your patience while waiting for it to be available. Here is the description as shown on the back of the book:“It’s August 2022, and Arden Power and Ronald White, best friends from Carston who enjoy helping businesses…

[joelfe]

[joebloggshere]

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

I don’t know what to big up first.  This was amazing.    If you look at these posts you will know that I only recently listened to Michelle Obama reading her memoir, Becoming - https://www.tumblr.com/joebloggshere/771008100114235392/becoming-by-michelle-obama-i-cannot-recommend  - what a couple!  To write those books and read them themselves, even with ghost/script writers, fabulous, (if they had them, I don't know).

But I also want to big up BorrowBox - https://www.borrowbox.com - if you are a member of a library (this may be limited to the UK) you get access to this service which lets you borrow eBooks and audiobooks, which is how I just borrowed this book.   What an amazing service.

But back to A Promised Land, Obama is articulate, literate, intelligent, compassionate, funny and since he reads the book himself, it is particularly funny when he does some of his impressions of his fellow world leaders, or himself, or his grandmother.  All endearing. 

On top of that, towards the end of book, Chapter 25 to be precise, Obama manages to succinctly and clearly give a background to the (modern) Israeli-Palestinian conflict which particularly, now in 2025, is helpful to understand, (the book was originally published in 2020).  

Highly recommend (to all)

[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.

[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…

[francescaswords]

Thank you to everyone who's purchased Rotting Trees so far. If you can't purchase a copy, you can get it absolutely free from your local library as an ebook or paperback. If it doesn't show in the library's catalogue search or your e-book app, you might have to ask at the desk and/or fill in a form - it'll depend on the library system.

[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

[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 💗

[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.

[dullahandyke]

In a fit of glee I've put in reservations for several audiobooks on borrowbox that are due back soon and borrow I'm glad my mom died pre-emptively to make sure I have enough to listen to ^_^ I might shift focus to podcasts or back to fanfics at some point but for now yayyy books books books books

[frecht]

well despite my best efforts. i suppose they discovered that my address and phone number were defunct. and despite me renewing it i no longer have a library card in ireland :/

[joelfe]

[towersofviolet]

oof, should have reserved this sooner...