• Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        The picture shows ISBN 9781784708276

        I search this to get the title: “Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures”

        I see £, so I’m going to assume it’s the UK. I picked Manchester as a city to search.

        I search the book.

        Seven 2021 versions, three 2020 versions, and audio book are available.

      • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        You’re right. Since they don’t have every book ever written, why bother even looking?

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        5 months ago

        Lol.

        Oh, yes let’s let perfection be the enemy of good.

        It’s a rare thing I can’t get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anything educational and it’s there.

        I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I’m talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It’s 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.

        It’s one of dozens I’ve ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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        5 months ago

        Do your libraries not have a system to request books from other libraries? Not trying to be a jerk, I just have looked for some obscure things before and sometimes they had to be requested from other libraries.