Comment on This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£

• Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • prayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Based and librarypilled

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  • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP said theyre from another country

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Found two copies in Municioal Library of Prague. This is not some super-obscure title.

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      • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I dont doubt that, but saying that its readily available assuming OP lives in the country where the book comes from is not necesarily true

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• pacmondo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re right. Since they don’t have every book ever written, why bother even looking?

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Kodachrome@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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