Do kindle library books expire free#

I got back on the waiting list for the one I didn’t finish. And it was kind of a busy week.īut being obsessively frugal, I quit reading the previously purchased book I was in the middle of, read like crazy for two weeks and finished all but one before they were automatically disappeared from my Kindle. Then I got three more emails that ALL THE BOOKS I’D HAD ON HOLD were available.Įach with the same two week limit before they’d disappear from my Kindle. Another book was available sooner than expected. I also put another book on hold to take that fifth available hold spot within my limit. I was thrilled and downloaded it immediately. One was supposed to be available in a month, one in two, another in three, and two were going to take at least six months.Īnd then one day, I got an email that a book I’d placed on hold was available. The wait times on the books I had on hold varied. I checked out a few that didn’t have a waiting list. I was so excited and immediately put my absolute top five (that’s the limit) want-to-read books on hold. There were so many books I’d been wanting to read! And I could check them out for free!!!Īnd. I checked into my library’s e-book offerings a few years later as I was paying off fines from another failed I-think-I’m-different-now moment. It didn’t have ANY of the titles I searched. I found that my small town library’s e-book system didn’t have many books I wanted to read. When I finally got all those fines paid off. When I finally did check this out, I leaned I couldn’t have any unpaid fines on any of my family members’ cards to get started. I love watching for Kindle sales, and that became my alternative to finding books at garage sales (since I didn’t need to be going to garage sales anyway).īut every time I mentioned my library angst here on the blog, some of you would suggest that I check out Kindle books from my local library. I didn’t realize how much I’d fall in love with my Kindle. I was jealous as I watched my friend “turn pages” on her Kindle with a single tap. I wanted one because I’d started using the elliptical machine at the gym and it was hard to turn pages on a real book in the midst of the sweating and huffing and puffing. Probably seven or eight years ago, I bought a Kindle. 25 to 50 cents apiece was much cheaper than realizing it had been six months since I checked out my limit. First, I bought them at garage sales or used book sales. My solution over the years has been to just buy books. It’s truly a matter of much angst in my life. I have sworn I’d change my non-returning-in-a-timely-manner ways again and again.īut alas, by the third go ’round of books checked out on a new routine that I’m sure will finally work, my TPAD flares and I suddenly realize that “something came up” multiple times and I find myself in dread of figuring out how much cash I’ll need to make things right at my local library. I have tried so many times to get a system going.

Do kindle library books expire free#

I love to read, and I was born frugal/cheap, so I should be a fan of anything that provides an endless supply of reading material for free.Įxcept that library books aren’t free for me. I’ve shared before that I can’t afford library books.