Libby

Los Angeles has an incredible, robust library system where you can obviously check out books physically and discs and all kinds of media, but the digital landscape in terms of things like Canopy and Hoopla, which you can get access to and watch free movies, a number of free movies a month through those digitally.

But also Libby has become one of my best friends, which is the app that you use to check out digital books that you can read on a Kindle or laptop or tablet, but also audiobooks.

That's been a huge thing for me is checking out and getting in line to check out – digital line, of course – to check out audio books because there's so much great stuff in any area you want to discuss, but certainly film related.

Uh, and I have been listening to sitting in the Mets book, making movies, uh, on, it is the old tape of it because there's actually, they still in the digital version, they still leave in the side of this cassette side has ended flip the tape.

I think I'll probably do it on audio just because it's a big book and just I will obviously get to it faster.

On Libby right now, I'm seven weeks out for the hold.

Okay,

yeah, you should get it then before the end.

And ideally, I'd like to like maybe honestly finish the whole series audio, but I for sure at least start and read book two, which is Beautifully Broken Life in the Sutter Lake series.

Okay, and that's one of her older series, right?

Yes, I just happened to come across it on Libby, like, to borrow for audio, and I just thought, why not? Because, like, ideally, I would love to read her entire backlog.

Backlog.

Go visit your public library because they have things, and if you have access to Hoopla or the other one that is not Hoopla.

Libby.

I love Libby.

They

are both amazing, and they have tons of stuff.

I would highly, highly encourage you if you're in Canada to buy it directly from Between the Lines or go to your local bookstore and put in an order there.

What I'll also ask folks to do is I just saw that my book is on Libby.

So if you want to go and preorder it or get a notification for when it's able to come to your digital store, Libby app would love for folks to do that as well.

But you can also go to your local bookstore and put an order at the library and go.

It's likely that if you are in a library in Canada, that person that is helping check you out is a union member.

It's one of the better music memoirs I've read or listened to.

And I got it on Libby through Dakota County.

And I...

Does she narrate it?

All it is, I will be listening to any podcast or on Instagram and I don't even look at the book.

I just go put out my Libby.

And then what happens is six weeks later, it comes up and I'm like, Oh, I don't remember a single thing about this, but sure.

Okay.

So let's dive into the first 12 chapters of Dude Messiah.

And, like, just the first 12 chapters is kind of hilarious to say because it turns out my audiobook, which I actually got through Libby.

So if you're interested in an audiobook but you don't have, like, an Audible subscription or anything, I didn't have to wait at all.

I got on Libby, Dune Messiah, go.

So if a lot of local public libraries, you can get a Libby subscription, which allows you to rent audio books for free.

And in this case, I was able to get Dune Messiah for free.

And.

All that's to say, there aren't chapter numbers.

I also like to listen to audiobooks a lot.

So buying audiobooks from or taking them out from the library, but not from Amazon, from Libro FM or getting them from Libby.

It's like a treat.

I'm like, I'm going to buy myself an audiobook.

Between library books and audiobooks, an audio credit or two each month, you can get through a lot more for a lot less than you think.

Okay, but what about the cost? Am I really going to buy the same thing twice? Well, between library books and audio books and an audio credit or two each month, you can get through a lot more for a lot less than you think, especially with Libby.

And compared to a gym membership or any other hobby that's important, it's really not that expensive, especially if it's something you're passionate about.

I probably spend an extra $250 to $300 a year on audiobooks beyond the physical books I buy, and I consider it money well spent for me.