Borrow Box frustrations

I tried the Irish equivalent and found that the libraries didn't have much in the genres that I like and those they did have had long waiting lists. I pay for Everand which is a streaming service so I can listen to as many as I like, it also has ebooks with a really good range of reference books (I quilt and crochet and it has loads on those subjects) as well as novels. I pay $85 a year, which works out well considering I listen to at least three books a month, often loads more. For the most part, if I'm listening to a crime series they have all the audio books in the series except perhaps the three most recent ones. The same for sci-fi.

Not everything is on Everand, some of my favourite authors are only on Audible. I've been an Audible member for years, what I do now is cancel my membership (I can still access books that I have previously bought). Often there will be an offer to stop me cancelling, eg a free credit, so I will take that and stay another month. Otherwise I will continue to cancel and then wait until they email me a good offer to sign up again. Usually after six months I will get an offer to have half price membership for three months and I'll take that and get books that I have put on my wishlist in the meantime.

I know. I've found that too. I want to read/listen to the Bridgerton series, but only some of them are there. I've reserved what I can and have bought two more. It's been the same with other series too. I had to use Audible to complete the Simon Serrailler series by Susan Hill.