Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2016 1:41:51 GMT -5
If your local library system offers the Hoopla service, you will have the opportunity to read a bunch of the DC Rebirth books for free.
Hoopla offers digital periodicals and others reading materials to libraries for a fee, but customers do not pay to "borrow" the materials from the library. By borrowing the books, you get access to read them digitally for a limited time (the borrowing period). Our local library does offer the service and I have long seen things like Irredeemable (by Mark Waid), the Marvel Adventures comic line, and other books available. In recent months I noticed books like Lumberjanes available and recently notices some DC new52 stuff and some of their evergreen trades making their way onto the service, and I just saw an article up on Bleeding Cool that Rebirth is not far behind, with DC announcing a release schedule of material to the service...
There was nothing in the Rebirth books that made me want to spend money on them, though a few intrigued me enough to keep an eye out for the trades if/when they hit the library. I might use Hoopla to sample some of those instead. I am not sure if libraries who use the service get everything the service offers of if there are limitations as to what is available to each library system. I do know that only a limited number of copies can be borrowed at one time and a new copy cannot go out until the old lending window expires, so not everyone in the library system can get access to the books at the same time. Our library system has gone all in on digital lending to improve the selection of what they can offer without blowing their buying budget, and I have tried to borrow digitally a few things before (not comics, but books or audiobooks) and have not really liked the experience too well, but then I am a Luddite at heart.
-M
Hoopla offers digital periodicals and others reading materials to libraries for a fee, but customers do not pay to "borrow" the materials from the library. By borrowing the books, you get access to read them digitally for a limited time (the borrowing period). Our local library does offer the service and I have long seen things like Irredeemable (by Mark Waid), the Marvel Adventures comic line, and other books available. In recent months I noticed books like Lumberjanes available and recently notices some DC new52 stuff and some of their evergreen trades making their way onto the service, and I just saw an article up on Bleeding Cool that Rebirth is not far behind, with DC announcing a release schedule of material to the service...
There was nothing in the Rebirth books that made me want to spend money on them, though a few intrigued me enough to keep an eye out for the trades if/when they hit the library. I might use Hoopla to sample some of those instead. I am not sure if libraries who use the service get everything the service offers of if there are limitations as to what is available to each library system. I do know that only a limited number of copies can be borrowed at one time and a new copy cannot go out until the old lending window expires, so not everyone in the library system can get access to the books at the same time. Our library system has gone all in on digital lending to improve the selection of what they can offer without blowing their buying budget, and I have tried to borrow digitally a few things before (not comics, but books or audiobooks) and have not really liked the experience too well, but then I am a Luddite at heart.
-M
