• Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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      6 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.

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      6 months ago

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

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      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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      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.