Sumter Library dropping Boundless
 

At the present time, the Sumter County Library uses a few apps for E-books. One of them is Boundless.

They are dropping Boundless and replacing it with CloudLibrary. I just figured out how to use Boundless last year!!

Does anyone have any experience with CloudLibrary?

Boundless was awful took way too long to get e books.

Wonder how long before this new system us up and running. They have been working on this change for a good 6 months.

Boundless
 

We have been using cloudlibrary in Lake County for the last year and it works just like Boundless and has more books on it.

Does the app have anything to do with the number of e-books the library offers?

I assumed the library paid for the rights to loan a particular e-book and that all the e-books they had paid for were available in the app. Is there more to it than that?

It appears that assumption was incorrect. I just saw an announcement that claimed CloudLibrary would come with a larger selection of books. Not at all the way I thought it worked.

Still no support for Kindle users. I pay my Sumter County taxes and can't use my library to checkout eBooks to read with my Kindle Paperwhite.

CloudLibrary tutorials.

Short version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucnEky06i4

Longer version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OhSu8PWgE8

Thanks wonder when it will be available to us. Also what happens to books on boundless waiting list?

Available now and the two apps don’t communicate as far as I can tell.

The only library app supported by Kindle paperwhite is Libby. Loans need to be placed on a pc and then loaded to the Kindle paperwhite. Sumter does not support Libby. Lake county does. If you are not in Lake county there is a substantial charge for a library card.

The Kindle uses a proprietary format. Other devices by Samsung, Apple and a hundred other companies do not.

Blame Kindle, not the library.

I called the Sumter library today and they told me that they were changing over to cloudlibrary in May. However, I went on the cloudlibrary app tonight and it works with my Sumter library card. I just downloaded a book to my iPad. The selection seems better than boundless.

Lake County also appears to be using cloudlibrary.

What annoys me is that Sumter County Library System (Library) provides a free borrower’s card to any resident of the State of Florida who completes an application.

I don’t think Lake gives us a free library card to Sumter residents. Lake gives you free cards to residents of Marion, Seminole, and Volusia counties. They charge us $40 a year.

Never understood why Sumter is so nice to other counties when they do nothing for us. Once asked Don Wiley to look into this but never got a response

Lake gave me a card good for one year. When the year ran out, I could not renew without a charge. Depends on who is standing behind the counter I guess.

cloudlibrary youtube video
 

I just watched the short version and I'm sure the narrator kept saying libary, instead of library. At least that's how it sounded to me.