A non-librarian friend of mine is talking... - LSW

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A non-librarian friend of mine is talking available titles in OverDrive on her blog - http://mycropht.wordpress.com/2012... "Yes, there are other things, of course. But chances are if you are not looking for a specific volume by title or author name, you’ll be browsing through several pages of Dude Nipples and...

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*points silently at publishers* - RepoRat

Yup. She does too, in the post. "I strongly suspect that Overdrive has sold itself to libraries as offering an ebook collection of X number of volumes, without specifying that most of their acquisitions are from the e-book version of the discount bin." - Rachel Walden

The thing is, though -- I bet that stuff circs liek whoa. - RepoRat

Probably does. I wonder though whether many folks just see those few titles on the front page and assume that's all there really is. (I think Kat is also acknowledging that that stuff fills some reading needs, just not always hers, or mine) - Rachel Walden

(Let me just also urge my fellow librarians to resist the "user must be broken" urge of saying things along the lines of, "Well, didn't you do this? I think you're talking about this all in the wrong way/place, or maybe using the system wrong.") - Rachel Walden

Shoot, and I thought "Dude Nipples" was a real title. - Meg V. Meg

I think it's a series of hundreds of books, they just rename the main characters. ;) - Rachel Walden

Ah, experimental fiction, got it. - Meg V. Meg