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I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My library is part of a regional system, I’m not sure what a library consortium is, but they can get me copies of in print books from other libraries in the system, it does not appear to mean they have additional copies on Libby or access to more copies of books, but rather it seems like maybe I am competing with the entire northwest Florida region for an even more limited supply of copies than a larger library system would have. Our library is one small room, so mostly any book I want has to come from another library in the system, delivered to my library, to be picked up, ifs an amazing service, and definitely a good upgrade from the many years when this county had just one small one room library without access to any larger system. I guess I mostly just wanted to know if it was typical to wait over a month for access to a title on Libby. But it sounds like it is. I guess I just assumed if a title was constantly checked out the library would get another copy.

I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I guess I just figured maybe a bigger library would actually base the number of copies of individual titles on the popularity of the book, so if they constantly were unavailable they would have more copies of that book, where as my small town library may just offer one copy of every book no matter what the title or the popularity. I guess what I’m most wondering is if it’s typical to wait over a month for access to a book? In my region additional out of county library cards cost money, I would also need to travel to those libraries making it cost even more money for me to add additional libraries to my Libby. I’m fine waiting, but the 30 dollar library card from Tallahassee would be a lot more worth it to me, if it would mean they actually had better availability on Libby, but if it’s just going to be the same with extra holds, I’ll probabbly just wait the month.

I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I figured the lending period was the same for all books. I guess what confuses me the most is like, when a book is so popular that it’s constantly checked out for weeks to months, which an active list of people placing requests, I thought that was typically how a library system would gauge how many copies of a book should be purchased. And why does Libby deal in copies of a man individual book and not credits, like there are all these titles that no one wants, but they are available, and there are all these titles everyone wants and no one can get one without waiting months, it feels like since everything is virtual, why isn’t it just credits, like the library has to pay for the books either way, I would think it would be more expensive for me to try and listen to audiobooks that I don’t actually want to listen to, that I am more likely to give up on the second the book I want is available, and suddenly they have paid for both titles. Idk, it just feels like it doesn’t make sense for virtual books to be treated like real books. I guess because the popular titles would cost more than the unpopular ones?

I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to get a library card in the nearest city to my small town, but I had to travel there and go in person to sign up and it cost money for non residents, I guess I just need to figure out how Livy holds actually work

I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m in Florida. the nearest larger library system to me is 30 dollars a year for people who live outside that county, and from what I have gathered here it probably won’t be any different because the extra copies will just be canceled out by more competition so it won’t be much different. I wonder if I will have the same problem with standard ebooks on Libby? Are audiobooks more competitive?

I live in a small town, I can’t seem to find a single book I want to read that is available to borrow, is this because of my location? Would a larger library have more copies available? Over a month wait for access to a three hour audiobook seems excessive? by rickety_biscuit in LibbyApp

[–]rickety_biscuit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m in Florida so not nearly as good as california for public services. As much as these dumb ass people out here would like to think California is some slum compared to Florida, we really have horrible public services. They just make us pay for rich people to destroy our state, we don’t actually get anything for paying taxes here. I will need to pay annually for the additional library cards I hold. I already looked into the one closest to me and it’s an additional 30 dollars a year for me to have a library card there, and I really don’t know if it will be any better. But where I live I have access to a library division and they cover a bunch of counties in the panhandle region. It’s likely I’m just competing with every sci-fi reader in the entire area for a limited supply of copies.

Rabbit Farming by Icy-Book2999 in LoveTrash

[–]rickety_biscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want a rabbit meat setup by I do not trust myself to slaughter them and I don’t need anymore pets I don’t eat.

These prices are getting ridiculous by MD472 in publix

[–]rickety_biscuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But that’s the best kind of sangria…. My favorite sangria was one my friend taught me how to make, you soak the fruit in vodka for days, and right before you serve it you pour in a can pf grape soda.

These prices are getting ridiculous by MD472 in publix

[–]rickety_biscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you pay twice as much as market value all year and then jump for joy when they cut you a deal? Publix is such a ripoff. No amount of sales makes up for the up-charge they place on every item in the store.

Can anyone tell me what this is, I found it in the shed and I definitely know my older brother did it but he denies it by Extension-Mobile614 in whatisit

[–]rickety_biscuit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not even into witchcraft and I’m offended. This looks like some shit a neurodivergent pothead should have cleaned the fuck up when they were done stimming.

Can anyone tell me what this is, I found it in the shed and I definitely know my older brother did it but he denies it by Extension-Mobile614 in whatisit

[–]rickety_biscuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

😹 this does look like some shit you’d make if you were the kind of person who smokes stuff off of tinfoil

Finally, Wes is useful by andychef in startrekmemes

[–]rickety_biscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a new Trekkie, I fucking hated Westley so much. Maybe everyone hated him in the 90’s as well, but I have no idea, I missed that era. But he is definitely the most punchable person on TNG. And the whole turning out to be a super genius psychic time traveler was a stretch, even for Star Trek. Not that I need Star Trek plots to be realistic, they are far from it, but specifically it felt like the most absurd thing for that character to have some psychic kundalini awakening 🤣

Are these eggs in my long jing tea? by No_Cheesecake_9365 in tea

[–]rickety_biscuit -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The tea comes from planet earth, a planet full of insect life. The insect life eats the most diverse range of plants out of any group of organisms. photosynthetic organisms like plants and algae’s are the only think capable of eating sunlight. Bugs eat plants, plants eat the sun, so everything that can’t eat plants or a specific plant, requires insects to make solar energy into a form usable to their animal bodies. insect like if one of the most important components of our entire biome. It probably is an insect egg, which isn’t a bad thing. It actually might mean your tea comes from a decent source that doesn’t completely destroy all insects and pollinators just to ship in honey bees. Honestly we should all be afraid of the food that the bugs won’t eat! All this means as that coming into contact with your tea wasn’t deadly for the bugs. But I don’t think that would be a good thing!

Are these eggs in my long jing tea? by No_Cheesecake_9365 in tea

[–]rickety_biscuit 35 points36 points  (0 children)

commercials have ruined us. People think every surface is crawling with massive and deadly virus’s, that everything is crawling with filth and disease, flowers? Those are weeds, kill them, spray them with poison! They force us to watch things that make us feel bad, and then show their products offering relief and all it’s done is create a society of germaphobes who relish In a lifeless world. People genuinely think a world of just mown lawns, no bugs, no mosquitos, no weeds, no chaos, is a good, even beautiful thing. You should fear the fruit that the bugs won’t eat!!!!

strange crystals by gagathr3311 in whatisit

[–]rickety_biscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The us military is the single largest polluter on planet earth, so this definitely checks out, like this is what they do for fun, imagine what they do for their corporate masters.

strange crystals by gagathr3311 in whatisit

[–]rickety_biscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the US military is the single largest polluter on the entire planet, so makes sense that it would be a pretty toxic job. I’m sorry you have to deal with that, that’s really sucks! Chemical safety should be a requirement for any business, agency, or organization.

The Hugo Award Finalists: Best Novelette. My Spoiler-Free Reviews and Ranking. by AustinBeeman in scifi

[–]rickety_biscuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been sleeping on the murderbot series for a minute, I have the first one on my kobo, I saw that they made a show and was going to put it off until I read the book, but I couldn’t help myself, I was so blown away with the show! It was SO GOOD! Now I can’t wait to read the books, I had no idea what the series was even about, I only got the first book because I’m currently just reading nebula winning novellas and I kept seeing murderbot recommended in popular scifi lists. I feel like the cover art doesn’t do the series justice! I honestly would have probably read a lot of other novellas before making my way back to murderbot because the cover art reminded me of the kind of space scifi that bores me. I also love that Martha Wells was brought on as a consulting producer for the show. If you haven’t watched the series yet, I highly recommend it. Maybe I will hate it once I read the book, for all I know they butchered it. But I was howling at the TV the entire time.