Kat lately advised me concerning the browser extension Library Extension, and it seems to be prefer it’s going to be actually helpful — greater than its not-exactly-creative identify may recommend. Once you’re a guide itemizing on Amazon or Goodreads, this instrument can examine its availability at your native libraries — amongst each bodily books and e-books.

Library Extension (to not be confused with Library Factor) is offered for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, and it searches hoopla, Libby/Overdrive, and several other different e-book platforms. It might probably entry the catalogs of 5,000 libraries, which is about one-third of the libraries within the U.S., and extra are being added. The web site allows you to seek for a library and request that your library be added.

To examine the provision of a guide, you don’t must create an account (although you’ll be able to join the month-to-month e-newsletter), and the web site says the extension gained’t monitor your exercise.

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As soon as you put in the extension, you’ll want to decide on libraries; I additionally added hoopla and Web Archive‘s Open Library. I couldn’t discover my native library department, however then I found out I must be much less particular and seek for the identify of my county library system as an alternative. (I don’t know if I actually wanted so as to add hoopla, as a result of Library Extension is already set as much as search my native libraries’ printed-book and e-book collections, however I figured I would as properly.)

Right here’s what Library Extension confirmed me after I visited the Goodreads web page for Margaret Atwood’s new brief story assortment, Outdated Babes within the Woods:

Once I clicked on the hyperlink for the bodily guide, the extension took me to my library’s catalog web page for the guide. The main points it listed have been appropriate — 2 out of the 25 copies are on the shelf at 2 branches. (I positioned a maintain at my closest department as an alternative, as a result of I’m in the course of a protracted guide proper now anyway!)

Clearly, when you solely wish to examine one library system, you’ll be able to go on to its web site to do a search (although this instrument does prevent a couple of clicks), however you probably have privileges at a number of libraries, it may actually save time to discover a guide.

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Readers, tell us: Have you ever tried Library Extension? What are your favourite book-related apps? Simply how huge is your TBR checklist? And what are you at the moment studying?