For those who are a frequent visitor of library and a book enthusiast, Wowbrary is a great service. Wowbrary is a free service and also a non-profit service that provides user with updated information on arrival of new books, CDs, DVDs or movies in their local library. The service also informs about your local library’s latest undertakings and book material acquisitions updated weekly.
To avail this free service, all you need is to visit Wowbrary website and enter your zip code to find nearby library. At present, Wowbrary is only available in major cities of U.S.A but it is in preparation to go worldwide by covering almost all important countries. Once users have entered their Zip Code on the homepage, they will be taken to a signup form. Here, only your e-mail address is required and you need to select which nearest library you would like to get updates of. Once you have entered all the necessary details, you can ‘agree to their terms of services’ and click submit button. Then you can go to your inbox to check for a confirmation email and by clicking a link in the confirmation email, you can start availing the service.
For those who would not like their e-mails to be filled up with piles of e-mails, they can subscribe the service via their RSS feeds. The RSS feed has different categories to choose from. You can select the desired category and subscribe to the feed for topic(s) that interest you.
Wowbrary is great for book enthusiast. With this online service, they will be able to keep a sharp look on the new arrivals on their local library and could snatch it before others. The only drawback of this service, as of now, is its scope. Its scope is very limited at present. It covers only US libraries. It would be better if this service gets worldwide and start providing local library updates to people from other countries.
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