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Audiobooks and online reading were the stories of the year at Shetland Library, which noticed a change of literary habits during the pandemic.
With the library closed for a time during lockdown, borrowers turned in larger numbers to eBooks and audiobooks to maintain their reading.
The library’s most borrowed list shows the top spot for ‘physical loans’ in adult fiction went to Jojo Moyes’ The Giver of Stars, a novel about packhorse librarians in America.
When ebooks and audiobooks were added it was checked out 146 times.
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ANN Cleeves has been knocked off the top of Shetland Libraryâs âmost borrowedâ list – while eBooks and audio books have increased in popularity over the last year during the pandemic.
The most borrowed physical adult fiction book at the library in 2020 was Jojo Moyesâ
The Giver of Stars, which focuses on pack horse librarians in the US.
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The Long Call, while other well-read authors included Elly Griffiths, Val McDermid and Peter May.
In the physical non-fiction section, David Gangeâs
The Frayed Atlantic Edge was the most popular.
The book, which tells the story of Gangeâs canoe journey from Shetland to Cornwall, was launched at the Lerwick library in 2019.