One of the things I love about libraries is the radical egalitarian access. No purchase necessary. However, in an effort to make this site broadly accessible, I’ve linked the books I select to their Amazon pages. Amazon is comprehensive and so pervasive that most people have accounts and can create lists to remember a book they were interested by.
This does lose the egalitarian access, so my suggestion is a Chrome extension called Library Extension. I’m a big fan of Library Extension, which asks you to select your local libraries so that when you are on a corporate book seller’s website, you can see if your library has any copies of the book and how many are available. It links straight to your library catalog so you can place everything on hold. I love this extension.
I’ve also added World Cat links, which will require entering your zipcode/post code in order for the website to offer nearby libraries. World Cat is an interlinked catalog, basically allowing you to search for a book and then see which libraries near you have a copy. They have 10,000+ libraries worldwide, so it should offer broad access support. However, it because it does distinguish between editions, libraries outside the U.S. might have fewer copies of a U.S. edition, but multiple copies of the UK edition.
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