I hate having to make a trip to the library, does anyone know about an online library. I'm thinking kind of like a net flix type of thing, you get them in the mail and then send them back and get new ones???
There's an online library at www.pioneer-library.org but it's not like net flix...you just research online, I believe.
Oops, was going to suggest ppaperbackswap, but I see it's been mentioned a few times. :o)
Check out paperbackswap.com. It's awesome!
Not many options especially for this area as far as the type of Library service you are talking about. There are tons of online audio books that you can "check-out" for a couple of dollars. Also, if you have a library card at any Idaho libraries, the state has paid for an online database for audio books. You can download them to your computer or MP3 player and listen to them at your leisure. If you are not sure how, there should be a link on your local library's website.
Hopefully that helps.
The local libraries here allow you to put a book on hold and choose to have it mailed to you rather than picked up somewhere. If you have mailers/postage already at home, you'd just need to drop it in your mailbox to return it. At most, I think that'd be the postage at $3.85/book. I can put any book on hold, whether it's checked in or not. I do that for books that I want, then just pick them up when I go in. It's great!
bookswim.com
booksfree.com
paperspine.com
I'm not a member of any of the groups, I was curious and just googled "Netflix for books" and these are the services that came up. Hope one works for you.
You might like Arcamax.com. They have books that you read on your computer or print them up. They also will email daily installments of the book you choose.
Someone else already mentioned paperbackswap.com. It works this way:
There are over 31,000 members with public profiles (and others who haven't made their profiles public). Most of them have piles of books they are done with and ready to share with someone else. You can request any book available in the whole database. (There are currently 363,787 unique titles available.) Someone sends you the book. You pay one "credit" for it. (Credits work out to be less than $4). When you finish it you can keep it, return it, give it away, or you can relist it back in their library for someone else to request and then you mail it to that person. Mailing the book gets you one credit you can then use to request another book. (You can also list other books you are done with and get credits when you mail them.)
When I lived in the Seattle area, (it's been 13 years...) the King county library system had a feature I LOVED. You could access the library online to browse the book catalog. If a book wasn't currently available at your branch, you could put it on "hold" and they would mail it to you a copy when it was available. When you finished it, you could return it to any branch. They explained that mailing it to you was just as cost efficient (or more) as transferring the book within the library system to your branch for you to pickup.
I know postage rates have changed since then so I am not sure whether they still do that--and I haven't heard of any other system doing it, but I sure thought it was great then!
i have well working system for the library. my son is three and has autisum so it can be a stressful situation to go to the library. in west michigan there is the lakeland library cooperative the website is: https://sam.llcoop.org/patroninfo/1288699/top
i go to barnes and noble website and browse for any book, DVD, audiobook whatever i want(only if i don't know a specific book) and the go the cooperative and put in my library card number and password which is the last four digits of your phone number. search the catalog for what you want and the great part is you can send it to the closest library to you. and it's totally free. i hope this works for you too!
