Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 12:35     Subject: Can I get more cards from more libraries to make my Libby better?

Anonymous wrote:I signed up for DC. I had like 3 months to go in person. The availability was so much worse than MoCo, I let the dc card lapse. It was not worth the trip


+1 I had the same experience.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 12:34     Subject: Can I get more cards from more libraries to make my Libby better?

I have one from Broward County in Florida and their selection is excellent. I pay around $30 a year for it but it's well worth it.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 11:57     Subject: Can I get more cards from more libraries to make my Libby better?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You can get an LA Public Library card online and they will send a little postcard with a code to your mailing address. If you put the code in to their website it turns into a permanent e-card without ever visiting a branch. It would of course be completely against the rules to use a friend's LA mailing address to do this. The LA library system has an excellent selection of obscure and academic e-books.


This is why LA taxes are ridiculous.


Yeah, I live in Brooklyn and people anywhere in the US were able to pay a tiny amount and get a Brooklyn library card. Meanwhile I’m here waiting months for my holds. They finally rescinded this policy, and good riddance. Brooklyn libraries should be for Brooklyn taxpayers. I feel for people with shitty library systems, but them’s the breaks of living in a small town.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 11:51     Subject: Can I get more cards from more libraries to make my Libby better?

I have four cards loaded onto Libby (DC, Fairfax, Montgomery, and Alexandria). You do sometimes have to switch between libraries for searching for a less common book, but libby does automatically show you the library with the shortest waitlist for any book.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2026 11:17     Subject: Can I get more cards from more libraries to make my Libby better?

Anonymous wrote:You can get an LA Public Library card online and they will send a little postcard with a code to your mailing address. If you put the code in to their website it turns into a permanent e-card without ever visiting a branch. It would of course be completely against the rules to use a friend's LA mailing address to do this. The LA library system has an excellent selection of obscure and academic e-books.


This is why LA taxes are ridiculous.