"Wargames from Your Public Library" Topic

If your public library offers access to Hoopla, you may be able to check out ebooks of One Hour Skirmish Wargames (Lambshead), Tabletop Wargames (Priestly and Lamshead), Wargaming Campaigns (Hyde), Sci-fi Skirmish Scenarios (Lambshead), and possibly more.

Free is an excellent price.

And if your library has shelves with books on them, you may be able to check out Grant, Young and Featherstone as well. I enjoy my kindle, but for anything where I have to flip back to an earlier passage to understand what's meant by a later one, give me paper.

Hoopla also has some good books for Wargaming. They seem to be epub files and not kindle

Overdrive has a couple of magazines.

I agree with Robert that for certain things paper is preferred. But it's good to be able to get a detailed preview of some of the books.

Many moons ago I did indeed get Featherstone and Grant from the public library. If only I'd known then that it was possible to request books!

I always prefer paper to ebook for rulebooks. Simply a better technology for my way of gaming. But for plain reading, give me ebooks….lighter and mroe convenient.

Good advice!

"Hey, guys, you can get stuff for free!"

<Cue complaints>

"Hey, guys, you can get stuff for free!"

Our library is funded by tax dollars so I've already paid for these books as I see it. I've checked out some of these books while on vacation just to review the rules or see if I wanted to buy them. The magazines are archived so I don't need to save copies.

I'm not sure how books get chosen by the Librarian but the more times they get borrowed the more likely that type of book will get chosen.

Yes, that's what makes the library "public."

I found them by searching for:
"Wargaming"
All books there as advertised!
Tanks!

You should also check Libby for wargaming magazines.

My local library has D&D 5e books (thanks to my work there and the donations of a very generous TMPer). There's also a 3/3.5 Wheel of Time adaptation, and a copy of the d6 Star Wars Role-Playing Game… and that's it.

The truth is that gaming books are very expensive compared to standard fiction and non-fiction books. So requests for these titles may not get honored, depending on how your local library prioritizes their budget. But it's worth making the request. If you have friends in the area who can also submit requests for the same titles, that would probably help.

Don't forget that most libraries participate in Inter-library Loan programs, through which they can temporarily borrow a book from another library in other cities, counties and states (or whatever structure applies in your nation). So even if your library doesn't stock the title (for whatever reason), there's still a possibility they can find it for you anyway.

And if your library system has a bookstore, check it regularly… ;-)