I've discovered #BorrowBox today. I don't know if all #libraries are signed up, but through those that are, if you have a libary card, you get free access to books, magazines and papers through your phone. I've spent much of today ambling through The Rugby Paper, BBC History Magazine, a couple of naff knitting magazines and now BBC Easy Food which is giving me lots of ideas for easy meals, as I've got a bit bored with meals lately. It's an incredible system.

#3GoodThings
Sat in the garden in the sunshine listening to a robin singing his heart out
Out for a delicious Italian meal to celebrate my brother in law's 76 birthday
Reserved our next book club book from #borrowbox as an audiobook . On Chapel Sands

#3GoodThings
1. My niece held a mending zoom call for #parentsforfuture She had a good conversation as she repaired a broken coat zip
2. My husband signed up to #nhs weight loss app. So I guess we'll be eating more healthily
3.I downloaded an e book from #borrowbox, a free service from my local #library

Does anyone have experience using a #Kobo device with #BorrowBox for reading ebooks. I have looked around on the web and it seems you need an Adobe ID (really just hate adobe) and the process seems just...arcane. What am I missing? Is Kobo incompatible? Do you really have to use Adobe software with a login? Trying to find alternatives to Kindle. #Bookstodon #library #Librarians #ThingsOnlyLibrariansKnow #Help #Amazon

Starting new #Borrowbox audiobook from library (for car journeys)… “3 Shades of Blue” by #JamesKaplan
Stories from the intertwining lives of:
#MilesDavis
#JohnColtrane
#BillEvans
And their #Jazz / #Blues #Music

Is there an e-reader that you can use with #BorrowBox? Really don't want to read books on my phone

Speaking of books, I saw that @guerrillarain's fantastic audiobook of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me is up on #BorrowBox for unlimited borrows, as in you can borrow it right now read it immediately! No queue!

I highly recommend it!

#Bookstodon #AmReading

(I think BorrowBox might be UK only library app)

I have acquired an old #Kobo that I need to get up and running. Unfortunately our library doesn't use a platform that is compatible (we've got #BorrowBox atm). Does anyone have any experience with Kobo? Where to find reading material etc?

I can't remember who recommended this book to me (someone on here) but I just finished it and thought it was very good. If is about an elderly couple that lose their home and with it their income. Unsure what to do they decide to walk "the salt path" along the coast living in a tent. Homeless and hungry they struggle along and we with them. Totally recommend it. I listened to the audiobook through the library app borrowbox.
#book #books #bookstodon #borrowbox #library #audiobook

Just finished "down and out in London and Paris" by George Orwell and it was a great book. Its kind of a biography of when Orwell was dirt poor, first in paris, where he at least managed to keep his accommodation but went hungry a lot and then in London where he was homeless. I think a lot of it still applies today and it's an interesting read regardless. So highly recommend!
#poverty #bookstodon #literature #book #audiobook #borrowbox

Another great murder mystery by Anthony horowitz. This is the 4th? Book in the hawthorn series and I really like his style. The self deprecating humour, the blurring of lines between reality and fiction, the unlikeable detective and the secrecy. Well anyways if you like murder mysteries I highly recommend this one! I listened to it on the borrowbox app and I think horowitz reads it himself.
#book #bookstodon #murdermystery #fiction #crimefiction #audiobook #borrowbox

Good morning. I have just finished listening to "about a boy" by nick hornby on the Borrowbox app. I really liked it. I came across it by reading "just like you" reviews on goodreads (which I also listened to but thought felt a little flat). What I liked about "about a boy" compared to "just like you" was that you actually understood why the characters liked each other and that they grew fond of each other over time.
#BorrowBox #borrowbooks #books #bookstodon #library #literature #novels

Turns out All About Love Ebook is on #BorrowBox!

That's great news! #AmReading

Finished "It" by Stephen king and am now listening to "the sanctuary" by Andrew hunter Murray. Another book I knew nothing about, I didn't even read the blurb so I donn't even know what genre it is (Sci fi by the sounds of it so far). It describes a future Britain (I presume, although places are just called cities or villages) that is rather bleak and society is older and vastly more unequal than it is now.
#bookstodon #audiobooks #books #scifi #novel #BorrowBox #library

Yey! #IFeedHerToTheBeast is available as Audiobook on #BorrowBox!

I don't know if BorrowBox is UK only, but basically it's our library app for eBooks and eAudiobooks.