Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

* Cookery books/garage manuals etc: again a bit of a moot one, but would you want to use your Kindle with hands with flour on or a bit of grease?

Resealable sandwich bags. I've always kept my kitchen scales inside a sandwich bag so they don't get dirty.

How does that ebooks in a library thing work then? I doubt they have that here.

Edit: I tried to look it up, got this page, but I don't understand what it means http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=26831 but there was a link in there to ebookshelves on http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=26318 where it says

"Choose from one of the following five shelves:

• Crime
• Reading Group
• Britain and Empire
• Childhood
• Soldiers and Spies"

All of which sound exceedingly dull and pointless.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

How does that ebooks in a library thing work then? I doubt they have that here.

Alongside its physical library a local authority will have a virtual library. Working in conjunction with Overdrive, the LA will have an online catalogue, accessible via its library website, which library users can sign on to and download virtual items for borrowing. At the end of their borrowing period they can - depending on format - delete themselves from the device.

In most cases the virtual library works in a similar way to a normal library - the book you want may be out on loan and you may have to join a waiting list to get it. Cornwall does have a virtual library, but theirs is in partnership with Bloomsbury rather than Overdrive:

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=26318

vivatifosi

I don't want to run down the Cornwall offering, but compare that to the one where I live in Hertfordshire and it does seem a bit lacklustre in comparison:

http://herts.lib.overdrive.com/8F4F35FD-5D8F-4FFE-A454-99C8CCEA1EE8/10/491/en/Default.htm

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't want to run down the Cornwall offering, but compare that to the one where I live in Hertfordshire and it does seem a bit lacklustre in comparison:

http://herts.lib.overdrive.com/8F4F35FD-5D8F-4FFE-A454-99C8CCEA1EE8/10/491/en/Default.htm

This is the thing when people "big up" libraries ... they're not all created equal - and many around the country offer an absolutely dire service with limited stock and rubbish hours.



Cornwall is one of the poorest regions in the whole of the EU, so maybe they couldn't afford the posh thing your lot bought.

Any chance of a ticket to your library then?

PasturesNew

Blimey - you even have cookery books on there!! Just (jokingly) looked to see if the Takeaway Secret was on the list .... and there's a great looking Indian Takeaway book there.

Edit: Oh, it's nothing about food... just some fool's life story.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Any chance of a ticket to your library then?

Absolutely. AIUI Hertfordshire allows people to join from anywhere in the country.

Though I do think that there is a wider issue in terms of access. It isn't right that the poorest area have less access as that's the whole point of library provision in the first place!

lostinrates

Grr....why I should always check NP thread before starting my day. The rain PN, then DN had reached here.....as we were half way through a second coat on the current windows. Sheesh.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Absolutely. AIUI Hertfordshire allows people to join from anywhere in the country.

Though I do think that there is a wider issue in terms of access. It isn't right that the poorest area have less access as that's the whole point of library provision in the first place!

But the poorest don't as it would cost me £3.70 to have a book sent from another county to my local library. That's a lot of money if you want/need 3-5 of them, say.

Do they all allow anybody to join?

To join mine here I had to prove who I am and my local address.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Grr....why I should always check NP thread before starting my day. The rain PN, then DN had reached here.....as we were half way through a second coat on the current windows. Sheesh.

We're better AND nicer than the man on the telly.

The weather is too London-centric. Londoners would go mad too if they got Paris-centric weather, yet they're closer to Paris than they are to me.

Always ask me what the weather's doing. It's bl00dy windy now
But dry.

PasturesNew

Just trying to join the herts library ... can't find out how/where yet. You'd think there'd be a big "JOIN" button.

Edit: Found it http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/libraries/online/joinlibonline/

Edit 2: Done it.