What's your favorite thing about the US?
May 25th 2012, 12:31 pm
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May 25th 2012, 2:12 pm
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May 25th 2012, 3:24 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Did you know that if you have a Kindle you can "borrow" books from some county libraries. Wake Co. NC is one. As many as you want but it's a 14 max period but you can always re up and if you do not turn your Kindle onto WiFi it stays there until you do, then they snatch it back. :~))
But the Nook books didn't have that limit, so it's weird...but they have more Kindle books on offer.
May 25th 2012, 3:31 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
You can do that with tangible books too.
Get a library card in each public library to which you are entitled. (For instance in Massachusetts, the world's public library mecca, any MA resident is entitled to borrowing privileges at any and all MA public libraries.)
Go to each library and borrow books and never return them, until you are banned.
Get a library card in each public library to which you are entitled. (For instance in Massachusetts, the world's public library mecca, any MA resident is entitled to borrowing privileges at any and all MA public libraries.)
Go to each library and borrow books and never return them, until you are banned.
So if you lived in Brighton, you could get a book in Boston or Wellesley as part of the Minuteman Library, but you couldn't in Worcester.
Where I'm at, we're part of C/W Mars, which covers central and western Mass and I've tried getting something that I know our old library had that wasn't in our network but couldn't.
Minuteman has great foreign movie dvd collection compared to ours :/
May 25th 2012, 3:32 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
What's your favourite thing about the US?............
Now name that quote, I bet sultan gets it
May 25th 2012, 3:33 pm
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May 25th 2012, 3:45 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Am i the only one confused - from tuna to libraries to kindles? I dont understand - maybe the boiling hot weather in middlesbro UK is getting to me!!!
May 25th 2012, 3:57 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
That doesn't seem to work. You're only allowed to get books that are part of that library network.
So if you lived in Brighton, you could get a book in Boston or Wellesley as part of the Minuteman Library, but you couldn't in Worcester.
Where I'm at, we're part of C/W Mars, which covers central and western Mass and I've tried getting something that I know our old library had that wasn't in our network but couldn't.
Minuteman has great foreign movie dvd collection compared to ours :/
So if you lived in Brighton, you could get a book in Boston or Wellesley as part of the Minuteman Library, but you couldn't in Worcester.
Where I'm at, we're part of C/W Mars, which covers central and western Mass and I've tried getting something that I know our old library had that wasn't in our network but couldn't.
Minuteman has great foreign movie dvd collection compared to ours :/
http://www.worcpublib.org/about/getlibrarycard.htm
Any resident of Massachusetts is eligible to apply for a Worcester Public Library Card for free as a first time user. A library card gives borrowing and computer usage privileges at the Main Library and branches and provides remote access to the Library's online resources.
May 25th 2012, 4:05 pm
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the US?
Has anyone tried to use their old UK library card and a VPN?
I wonder where my old card might be?
I wonder where my old card might be?
May 25th 2012, 4:14 pm
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May 25th 2012, 4:27 pm
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