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What are you reading? August 2014

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Post by Misfit » Thu August 7th, 2014, 3:04 pm

Finished A Grave Matter this morning. Another nice mystery and that Gage is such a hunk ;)

Where's Susan? I just spotted the new Deanna Raybourn in the main Overdrive catalog. Get your purchase suggestion in ASAP to be first on the list.
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Post by Susan » Thu August 7th, 2014, 4:16 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]Where's Susan? I just spotted the new Deanna Raybourn in the main Overdrive catalog. Get your purchase suggestion in ASAP to be first on the list.[/quote]

I never figured out how to suggest eBooks for purchase using the instructions you gave me. However, because of your post, I just emailed the support help for my library consortium and asked if there was a way to request eBooks be purchased. Let's see what they say. I knew there was a new Raybourn book, Night of a Thousand Stars. Is that the one you are thinking about?
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Post by Misfit » Thu August 7th, 2014, 5:43 pm

[quote=""Susan""]I never figured out how to suggest eBooks for purchase using the instructions you gave me. However, because of your post, I just emailed the support help for my library consortium and asked if there was a way to request eBooks be purchased. Let's see what they say. I knew there was a new Raybourn book, Night of a Thousand Stars. Is that the one you are thinking about?[/quote]

That's the book. Let's try this for you. Go to your Overdrive catalog and search for Deanna Raybourn. See image #1 bottom right corner. Click on the blue button for additional results. See Night of a Thousand Stars? Click on that title to view the book in the OD catalog. See image #2. Click on the recommend title and follow through.
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Post by emr » Thu August 7th, 2014, 6:28 pm

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
My idea was to read a little today more tomorrow since I usually prefer fiction. But now I can't stop reading. This is so good.
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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Thu August 7th, 2014, 8:11 pm

I'm reading The Red Hill by David Penny. The title clued me in that it might be about the Alhambra, and indeed it starts just before the last seige of Granada. So far Penny has done his research, and he writes well, a little Bernard-Cornwellian.

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Post by Susan » Thu August 7th, 2014, 8:47 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]That's the book. Let's try this for you. Go to your Overdrive catalog and search for Deanna Raybourn. See image #1 bottom right corner. Click on the blue button for additional results. See Night of a Thousand Stars? Click on that title to view the book in the OD catalog. See image #2. Click on the recommend title and follow through.[/quote]

Misfit, my eLibrary page looks nothing like that. Customer service people said to email requests to them. This is my eLibrary's homepage: http://listennj.lib.overdrive.com/
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Post by Misfit » Thu August 7th, 2014, 9:13 pm

[quote=""Susan""]Misfit, my eLibrary page looks nothing like that. Customer service people said to email requests to them. This is my eLibrary's homepage: http://listennj.lib.overdrive.com/[/quote]

I see what you mean and I don't see the request button. Could that be an option for individual libraries? This is where I go: http://overdrive.downloads.kcls.org/4A3 ... efault.htm
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Post by Lisa » Thu August 7th, 2014, 9:24 pm

If it helps with the matter of libraries, my library has its e-books mixed in with its normal online catalogue, and requests can be e-mailed to the library via a form on the catalogue website. However it's also on Overdrive, along with access to a neighbouring library's e-books (they have a sharing agreement so I'm not a member of the neighbouring library) and there are two separate logins for those. I can submit requests via Overdrive only to the library of which I am not a member - I assume it's because I can already do so for my own library on its website.

Maybe that just confused things actually, but I guess it shows every library is different?

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Post by Misfit » Fri August 8th, 2014, 12:10 am

[quote=""LadyB""]If it helps with the matter of libraries, my library has its e-books mixed in with its normal online catalogue, and requests can be e-mailed to the library via a form on the catalogue website. However it's also on Overdrive, along with access to a neighbouring library's e-books (they have a sharing agreement so I'm not a member of the neighbouring library) and there are two separate logins for those. I can submit requests via Overdrive only to the library of which I am not a member - I assume it's because I can already do so for my own library on its website.

Maybe that just confused things actually, but I guess it shows every library is different?[/quote]

I would guess they are all different. If I search a book on the main lib site, it shows dead tree as well as digital, but the purchase requests have different processes.
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Post by Susan » Fri August 8th, 2014, 2:12 am

[quote=""Misfit""]I see what you mean and I don't see the request button. Could that be an option for individual libraries? This is where I go: http://overdrive.downloads.kcls.org/4A3 ... efault.htm[/quote]

After reading the other posts on this, I think each library system has things formatted differently.
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