Oh, yes let’s let perfection be the enemy of good.
It’s a rare thing I can’t get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anythinesucational and it’s there.
I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I’m talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It’s 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.
It’s one of dozens I’ve ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.
Do your libraries not have a system to request books from other libraries? Not trying to be a jerk, I just have looked for some obscure things before and sometimes they had to be requested from other libraries.
https://search.worldcat.org/ is a good inter-library search site. My librarians use it (among other things, I'm sure) to find books/DVDs to acquire for me on ILL, but since the site is public sometimes I just do the search for them and send them a link to what I want when I submit a hold request.
Everytime i have been unable to find a book in the library i have asked the librarian and had it brough in from another library. i dont think there has ever been a book i wanted they didnt have somewhere in the chain
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ah yes, libraries. Those mega buildings with every book on Earth inside…
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The picture shows ISBN 9781784708276
I search this to get the title: “Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures”
I see £, so I’m going to assume it’s the UK. I pitched Manchester as a city to search.
I search the book.
Seven 2021 versions, three 2020 versions, and audio book are available.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Which means even if it’s not available in OPs local library they could go to their library and get it on an interlibrary loan.
prayer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Based and librarypilled
tomi000@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OP said theyre from another country
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Found two copies in Municioal Library of Prague. This is not some super-obscure title.
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You’re right. Since they don’t have every book ever written, why bother even looking?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Lol.
Oh, yes let’s let perfection be the enemy of good.
It’s a rare thing I can’t get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anythinesucational and it’s there.
I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I’m talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It’s 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.
It’s one of dozens I’ve ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 month ago
Do your libraries not have a system to request books from other libraries? Not trying to be a jerk, I just have looked for some obscure things before and sometimes they had to be requested from other libraries.
Kodachrome@kbin.social 1 month ago
https://search.worldcat.org/ is a good inter-library search site. My librarians use it (among other things, I'm sure) to find books/DVDs to acquire for me on ILL, but since the site is public sometimes I just do the search for them and send them a link to what I want when I submit a hold request.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Everytime i have been unable to find a book in the library i have asked the librarian and had it brough in from another library. i dont think there has ever been a book i wanted they didnt have somewhere in the chain