Library Haul ~ 20-1-2024 (Library #3)
Afternoon!!
A very happy welcome to a new Library #3 haul. Yep. No #2 Library haul.
Apparently Library #2 changed their subscription with the start of the year and apparently despite still having 4 months of my yearly subscription left the new one apparently just counts (which no isn’t legal). Which meant I was just utterly confused when I was borrowing at Library #4 on Friday and got a message I could only borrow 25 and was over the limit. I called Library #2 but the woman I got couldn’t really help me. This week has been a rollercoaster, LORD. So I decided to go to Library #2 (and thus also #3) on Saturday instead of next week. That way I could just bring back all my books and just cancel my subscription (yes, boom, bye). Because 60 was a perfect amount of books to be able to borrow, but with 25 it just didn’t work out if I also wanted to borrow at my town’s library (thanks to gastlenen) + occasionally another library (again yay for gastlenen). The only other solution would be that I would have to add a third subscription which would be Library #4 so I could use that + go gastlenen at Library #5, but given how expensive library subscriptions are here… that is just not going to happen. So, long story short, bye bye Library #2. Learn to communicate. So what is next for me? Well, I will be getting a subscription at what is now Library #4 so I can keep borrowing books from them (because I would love to do that as they have a good collection + are nearby my home) + also keep visiting Library #5. I will post the occasional book haul from Library #4, um #2 now, if I find enough books~
Now that long story is out in the world, on to Library #3!! I was definitely excited to grab some new books from there especially since we visited the main branch again~ I had quite a bit of luck there, haha, on the entrance floor which had the new releases I found 7 new books! And then I had fun walking around the library and picked up even more books. I am so happy with the books I found, I got some great fun non-fiction books + a couple of graphic novels. I cannot WAIT to read these books, so excited. It was definitely a highlight of today’s eh events of having to say bye to Library #2~
STATS: 12 books! 8 non-fiction, 2 graphic novels, 2 fiction.
In de ban van de zwam by Judith Eiselin
Dit boek is dodelijk by Ravena Guron
Ladoani by Jannke Branger
Droomreis met een dondersteen by Elly Molenaar
Speak by Emily Caroll
Nacht met de cowboy by Kennedy Fox
Man wordt vader by Christ Bergström
Papeete 1914 by Didier Quella-Guillot, Sébastien Morice
Selling Polaroids in the bars of Amsterdam 1980 by Bettie Ringma, Marc H. Miller
Keep on Rockin’ by Anno van der Heide
Het geheime bestaan van bladerlingen by Niamh Sharkey, Owen Churcher
Hoe valt een schrijver uit de trein by Aruthur Japin, Eric J. Coolen
2 thoughts on “Library Haul ~ 20-1-2024 (Library #3)”
Nice haul Mehsi! Sorry about your library troubles. Do you have to pay for using certain libraries because you don’t live in the area they service? I only have one library but they are in a group of five others. So if my library doesn’t have a book I can put a hold on it at one of the other libraries if they have it and then its delivered to my library.
Have a wonderful week of reading!💜💜.
Thank you! And no, we don’t have free libraries here. How to explain it, you can have a city/area/province and in that city/province/area you need to pay for a subscription to one library and then you can borrow in any libraries that are branched on it (sometimes just 2 libraries, sometimes way more). However, they are trying to introduce gastlenen (guest loaning)/landelijk lenen (country-wide loaning) which allows you to go to other libraries outside of that area/city for free. However, the gastlenen subscriptions often suck. For instance I got a paid subscription at library #1 because the subscription they give people who do gastlenen is like 4 books max at a time. Hope that makes sense, haha. And yes, you can also get books from other libraries but that generally can cost anywhere from 1 euro to 5 euro and I have also seen higher prices.
Thank you! 😍😍