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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you're not wrong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

yo! great find! while the only one on the list that will issue a free card to non residents is in wisconsin, someone in the comments pointed us to sunnyvale california! woot. add another card to my libby stack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i have to say, as i look around for libraries/library systems that offer what i want and i think about, for instance, the netflix or disney+ or whatever fees... libraries are dirt cheap even if i end up shelling out a couple bucks. netflix is what, 25 bucks a month now? that's $300/year. i could get access to some pretty awesome libraries for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

thanks! looks like they charge $40/y for nonresidents now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

they are all in my state. I'd rather not say

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You might have trouble getting free unrestricted library cards if you don’t live in the area that the library serves. They are usually paid for with taxes and aren’t there to serve people outside their community.

yea. i realize this. but as i said, my inclination is that there is some philanthropic and national libraries that i just don't know about that fit the bill.

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i also got cards from my local library system, and the two major cities in my state. there's a minor city, too that gave me one. so i have a pretty good stack, but they are all from my state.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

MEK appears only to be available in hungarian, with some english, but i don't know hungarian at all. maybe someone else will find this useful tho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

most institutions will issue a physical card, but i don't care if i get one as long as i get an account that grants me access.

I'll check out mek

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ok well here's a tip: Libby by Overdrive has different availability of resources depending on your institution, but the app allows you to load all the cards they know about. And they have some kind of affiliation with Kanopy (for movies and tv), who seems to have a universal collection, but limits access to some of their holdings using a ticketing system like carnival rides. More library cards means more tickets-per-month. And Hoopla is sort of a hybrid: it has ebooks, audiobooks, tv, movies AND MUSIC, but your library pays for so many items-per-day across all of its patrons, so if one of your libraries has hit its daily limit, just... switch cards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

get this racist shit out of here

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