Borrowing from the library

[vivdunstan]

Recently rejoined the public library (Angus Libraries). I struggle with print due to progressive neurological illness - indeed have done for 25+ years - so borrowed a mass of illustrated/painting/photography books. Latest catalogue request from elsewhere in Angus is a new manga Sherlock Holmes. Fab!

It is encouraging I can still find physical books I want to borrow, even if I can't read print or even large print now. And it's marvellous how the online library catalogue lets me call books in from all over Angus. There's a particularly good Scottish cultural/history collection in store at Forfar.

Meanwhile I continue to read masses on my Kindle. I have a huge pile of ebooks on my virtual to read pile. I often snap them up when they're on reduced sale price. I buy far more ebooks than I ever get read! But at least it lets me keep reading extended fiction and non fiction. With gargantuan font.

Comments

[ironymaiden]

I get most of my ebooks and audiobooks from the library (in the US). Does Angus have any electronic resources or is it all paper books?

[vivdunstan]

Angus were very late to get ebooks, much slower than many other libraries in Scotland. But they do have some now. I was checking them out again last night, after my post here. The Angus ebook range isn't great, and has very little I'd want to read. There's definitely better provision of popular and recent titles in print. Angus audiobooks are better, but I don't find they work for me, given how heavily sedated I am, and my hearing problems. I also constantly need to reread sections of books, and that's cumbersome with an audiobook. I also don't take in the information as well as in print or an ebook. What is good is there are quite a lot of digital versions of magazines we can access, including some I sometimes buy in print, including a popular UK scifi/fantasy/cult/TV/films magazine and a music technology one. Those will be useful for me. But not the other digital offerings. On plus I could customise the ebook app to have a gargantuan font on my iPad when I tried late last night. But then they don't have the ebooks I want to read ...