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    Johnnyutah247
    Haraki san Student
    @sabergirl
    Joined: 2 Mar 2019

    @sabergirl can you give me a brief rundown of how Libby works? My local library uses it. But it seems like it’s mostly physical books and not audio.

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      sabergirl
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      Joined: 4 Oct 2013

      It depends on what your library system purchased how many (if any) audiobooks they have. Most have both things, though.

      First install the Libby app.

      You have to sign in using your library card number and identify what your library system is.

      Once you’re logged in you can browse titles (you can limit search to audio if you like). Find a title you want, and there’s a copy available you just hit borrow. If the licensed copies are all checked out, you hit “place hold” and will have to wait until it’s available. The app will send you a message when your hold is available to check out. Don’t wait to check out your hold, or else it will send it along to the next person in a couple days.

      Once you’ve borrowed a title it’s on your shelf, and you can read it at will. Pretty sure you get three weeks with most things. You can read directly in the app, download, or “read with kindle” which has the intermediate step of logging into Amazon before you can download and read with the kindle.

      Anyway, it’s really very easy, and a librarian at your local could easily walk you through it!

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        Johnnyutah247
        Haraki san Student
        @sabergirl
        Joined: 2 Mar 2019

        @sabergirl that’s perfect thanks. I’ve always been a physical book guy but I might need to try a kindle now.

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          rfr1970
          Raw and Unwashed
          Joined: 6 Mar 2023

          Next Friday the 16th will be Bloomsday.

          30 years ago I tried to read the Ulysses, it was impossible.

          20 years ago I made the second attempt, I failed

          10 years ago, I got the first chapter and then I quit

          In February 2022 I started reading it again, this time I managed to finish it on June 16, 2022.

          It was like climbing the highest mountain on earth. Now every June I will reread a chapter to celebrate it.

          I am now looking at how to tackle Finnegans Wake.

          James Joyce followers…. ¿Any advice?

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            Aetas
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            Joined: 19 Jun 2013

            Asked about this new upcoming eye-tracking Apple Vision Pro Gadget, I always answer to read Ready Player One and Two first and ask again afterwards.
            This two books highlight some eye opening facts!

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              SKT
              見習いボス
              Joined: 26 Aug 2019

              Looking forward to the upcoming movie based on this book. Scorsese directs. Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson in it too. Glad I read it and served as another reminder of how brutal real American history is.

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                Matt
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                Joined: 4 Oct 2011

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                  Mizmazzle
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                  @SKT
                  Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                  @SKT I just heard about this book and upcoming movie. Think I’ll have to put this one at the top of my list. Insane how wicked money and greed makes the human.

                  In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

                  last edited by 21 Jul 2023, 13:17 S 1 Reply Last reply 21 Jul 2023, 15:18 Reply Quote 1
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                    SKT
                    見習いボス
                    @Mizmazzle
                    Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                    @Mizmazzle I think you’ll enjoy it but man it does make you scratch your head at what people will do for money. Pretty ugly stuff

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                      setandsetting
                      Raw and Unwashed
                      @rfr1970
                      Joined: 5 Jan 2016

                      @rfr1970 said in Books:

                      Next Friday the 16th will be Bloomsday.

                      30 years ago I tried to read the Ulysses, it was impossible.

                      20 years ago I made the second attempt, I failed

                      10 years ago, I got the first chapter and then I quit

                      In February 2022 I started reading it again, this time I managed to finish it on June 16, 2022.

                      It was like climbing the highest mountain on earth. Now every June I will reread a chapter to celebrate it.

                      I am now looking at how to tackle Finnegans Wake.

                      James Joyce followers…. ¿Any advice?

                      I read Ulysses in grad school, in a Yeats/Joyce seminar. I'd like to pick it up again (and still have my original copy) as I find I'm a better reader than I was half my life ago.

                      On the topic of big, difficult books: I've tried The Recognitions a couple of times and failed. That feels like my next big climb.

                      But back to Joyce, the guy who taught the seminar I took was Heyward Erlich, who was pretty well known in Joyce circles--I think he was head of the James Joyce society at some point. Anyway, regarding Finnegan's Wake he said no one reads it, even scholars. They'll pick up passages and sections but it's nigh impossible to read in any linear way as if it were a novel.

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                        mclaincausey
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                        Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                        The problem with Joyce is that, not only do you have to be educated in the classics (and I’ve forgotten a lot of that stuff), there is so much contextual reference to the time and place in which he was writing that it is very difficult to understand exactly what he means. Especially considering how there are so many layers of meaning and as you mention the nonlinear storytelling.

                        It’s a struggle at least for me. I wish it weren’t because he’s a beautiful writer.

                        Think it, be it.

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                          rfr1970
                          Raw and Unwashed
                          @setandsetting
                          Joined: 6 Mar 2023

                          @setandsetting , your advice seems reasonable. Thank you

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                            rfr1970
                            Raw and Unwashed
                            @mclaincausey
                            Joined: 6 Mar 2023

                            @mclaincausey, that’s true… languages, history, politics, sociology,... nuances

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                              Matt
                              見習いボス
                              @SKT
                              Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                              @SKT tell me about it.

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                                setandsetting
                                Raw and Unwashed
                                @mclaincausey
                                Joined: 5 Jan 2016

                                @mclaincausey said in Books:

                                The problem with Joyce is that, not only do you have to be educated in the classics (and I’ve forgotten a lot of that stuff), there is so much contextual reference to the time and place in which he was writing that it is very difficult to understand exactly what he means. Especially considering how there are so many layers of meaning and as you mention the nonlinear storytelling.

                                It’s a struggle at least for me. I wish it weren’t because he’s a beautiful writer.

                                Not to mention that he's making puns that require knowing multiple languages to understand.

                                last edited by 23 Jul 2023, 17:26 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                • steelworkerS
                                  steelworker
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                                  Joined: 16 Apr 2014

                                  I liked Dubliners. As Mclain points out a classical education aids in reading but jokes about Irish politics of the time are over everybodys head today. If I'd tried reading Finnegan first I wouldn't have read a word of Dubliners

                                  Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                                  Well, I have others.

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                                    rfr1970
                                    Raw and Unwashed
                                    @steelworker
                                    Joined: 6 Mar 2023

                                    @steelworker Dubliners is a good read, wonderful stories.

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                                    • calxwintersC
                                      calxwinters
                                      Raw and Unwashed
                                      Joined: 22 Nov 2019

                                      Currently on a dark/gothic western kick, and just wrapped up McCarthy’s (RIP), Blood Meridian. Absolute masterpiece.

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                                        tody
                                        啓蒙家
                                        Joined: 24 Feb 2021

                                        Again, Deutsche Bahn is letting me down on a train ride back from Munich.
                                        Reading the latest Stephen King novel, Fairy Tale. It starts very promising. I liked the one before, Billy Summers, a lot.
                                        Also, CJ Tudor from the UK is an author I came to like a lot.

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                                          SKT
                                          見習いボス
                                          @tody
                                          Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                                          @tody ha, me too! About halfway through. I’m enjoying it so far.

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