Petty Woes/Please Help?

[ladysprite]

I love my e-reader. And I love the Boston Public Library. In particular, I love that I can just automatically download books from the latter to the former.

Except sometimes it works out that all of the books I've put on hold show up at once, and then time crunch is such that I can't read them all at once. End result? I was about 100 pages from the end of 'A Clash Of Kings' before Cruel Fate declared that the lending period was over and auto-deleted it from my Nook.

I could just buy it.... but paying for the last 100 pages just irks me. I could take it out of the library again... but there are already another 20+ people on the waitlist; it'd take a month or more. And that's for both the paper and the digital copies, so just physically walking to the library and borrowing it won't work.

So I'm asking here - does anybody local have a copy they can lend me? If not, I'll just bite the bullet and buy it, but if you do I'd be grateful as anything....

Comments

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Yes, can do. Will you be home today, or are you already out doing the Esplanade or something?

(I you're only 100 pages from the end, would you like to borrow the next one too at the same time?)

[keshwyn]

We have a copy too, if gyzki's copy doesn't work out.

[citabria]

So ... I don't know how BPL's electronic lending works, nor do I know how Nooks manage these things. But....

If I keep my Kindle's WiFi off, a borrowed e-book won't disappear until I turn the WiFi on again. Apparently the Kindle itself doesn't keep track of the due date -- it comes via a ping via WiFi.

Not that I ever borrowed any of GRRM's books on my Kindle and ran into the same problem, or anything.

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

The newer simple touch nook does keep track sadly?

[citabria]

Ah, that sucks then. It really sucks. (Especially when you're, say, 5% from the end -- which is what usually happens to me on due day.) Honestly, if I didn't have the turning off the Wi-Fi option, I might not borrow as often.

[darkoni]

I own the series. If you don't end up getting it elsewhere sooner, let me know and I'll bring it Tuesday.

[laurion]

If none of the above work out I can lend you electronic copies.