Book of the Month Flash Sale – 50% Off 3-Months Subscriptions!

:::grumbles:::

I’m reading Dark Matter now and will probably put it up for swap when I’m done if you’re interested 🙂

First, I love that you’re a librarian…kudos to you! But I have to agree that the lack of availability of sought after books at some local libraries makes this sub pretty worthwhile. When there’s one copy of a book and people can hold it for couple weeks, if there’s a sizable waitlist it can be well over a year before getting your hands on a “current” book. My hope is that when people finish their BOTM selections, they donate them to their local libraries, thus increasing the local supplies and decreasing the wait time for others. In short…everybody wins!!

I love the library, but the problem I run into is putting books on hold for new releases can be up in the 100+ waiting. For example a few months the book “I let you go” I was 100+ people ahead of me, so this way I can get them faster. I do only get the one book a month and the others I want to read I put on hold lol 🙂

I’m not a librarian, but I feel the same way! I’m an avid lifelong user of libraries but unfortunately my new local one is small and rarely gets many new books. For them, it’s all about computers (I realize that’s a sign of the times, and budgets are thin, but it’s disappointing to have so few choices). Sometimes I borrow e-books for free using a sharing program among many regional libraries. It works, though I have to be patient waiting on Holds, and they too don’t offer many new digital books, or even older ones.

So, a few months ago I caved and joined BOTM because it is a very easy, well-run subscription. 🙂 I was sad to learn that, unlike all the other sub boxes, once you’ve used a coupon, you cannot use one ever again, so I won’t be rejoining BOTM. I can justify $7.49 or $9.99 for a book, but not $16.99. Bummer!