public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):
brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)
seattle (13-26yo us residents)
boston (13-26yo us residents)
los angeles (13-18yo california residents)
san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)
these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
I'm trying to prove something.
Scientists need to find a way for me to read every single fantasy book ever written and still have time to reread my favorites and read non-fantasy books. This is what really matters
isekai needs to start borrowing from the truly unhinged world of middle grade fantasy novels for its premises. where’s the isekai where a high school student falls into a hippo enclosure at his part time job at a zoo and is transported to another world? or the one where a bunch of middle schoolers go to a haunted house on halloween, and are kidnapped and taken to another world to be sold into slavery?
i’d imagine they misread this panel in 338! the way it’s spaced, if you’re not quite paying attention you might just read, “i’m erica, zach’s sister” and miss the “and i” on the next line. i did the same thing when i first read it tbh, i had to go back and check again to realize
Small question: How many siblings does Zack have? It's been a while since I last read through the entirety of IWBACAG, but I thought Stella was Zack's only sister and Erica was her friend? But in the more recent chapters, she's Zack's sister? Is this a retcon, or am I misremembering some stuff?
Er... i don't think its mentioned anywhere that Erica is Zack's sister? I think i wrote it so that Erica is Stella's(zack's sister) friend. Stella is Zack's only sibling, and if you can find the error, please point the page out so that i can correct it, thenk q
The true enemies to lovers
petition to give northern ireland back to the irish as part of the terms of our alliance
Felt like covering the map of Europe with dots-
Ignore the key, I made it because I was bored-
It's silly hours fellas, gotta have silly hours after murdering bots, right? ;}
We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and they're already trying to purge us from libraries.
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