Ever heard of an Online Library?

[sweetirishct]

Looking for some of the books I was suggested to read, but the local library doesn’t have them, and can’t even get them on the inter-library loan… So wondering if there is a service out there that is like the Netflix… Small monthly fee to borrow any book for as long as you need…
anyone??
Thanks!!

 

[Dale_M]

What a fascinating idea. My local library doesn’t allow inter-library loan for any book which can be bought for less than $30. So I’ve been building my own library.

I did find one business similar to the model you describe
booksfree.com/

But with only 88,000 titles I am not sure they would carry the monastic related books which interest me.

Sigh. I guess we could always move to Miami or to Canada’s North West Territory both which allow residents to borrow by mail.

 

[Larry1700]

I don’t know what books you’re looking for, but this place is a resource of a lot of Christian classics:

ccel.org/

Please be aware that I know very little about this organization, the accuracy of their transcriptions, etc. I just happened upon it one day, and it appeared to be a good possibility for early Christian literature.

 

[Dandelion_Wine]

I don’t have a direct answer to your question - just a memory.

I remember when I was a wee lad looking for a book. They didn’t have it at our library. The library showed me a book that (as I recall) had every book ever printed in it. I had to find it in there and give her a number (ISBN maybe? some Library of Congress number perhaps?) and I don’t know where or how, but they eventually got it for me.

Maybe if you press your library they can somehow get it for you.

 

[Nevarlander]

Suggestion: buy the books off of Amazon or something and then re-sell them when you’re done. That’s what college students do with textbooks (except me, b/c I’m a bibliomane… ).