L.A. County Library announced Tuesday that it reached a record-breaking 3,109,225 digital book checkouts via
OverDrive in 2020 – a 34 percent increase from 2019 – making it one of the top 15 public library systems worldwide for total annual digital circulation. L.A. County Library Sets Record with More than 3 Million Digital Book Checkouts
This accomplishment illustrates the continued growth and importance of library digital lending of eBooks and audiobooks, especially in a year with building closures due to the global pandemic. L.A. County Library is one of 102 public library systems worldwide that surpassed 1 million checkouts.
L.A. County Library has been providing readers 24/7 access to eBooks and audiobooks for several years through
John Boorman once said: âMovie-making is the process of turning money into light.â The publishers of Old Ireland in Colour have discovered that turning black and white photographs into colour is a surefire moneyspinner. It is the only book to have made more than â¬1 million in Ireland last year.
The practice of colourising black and white photographs may be controversial but there is no doubting its popularity. Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley, published by Merrion Press, sold 48,475 copies, earning almost â¬1.14 million.
Champagne Football by Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan (Sandycove) was Irelandâs best-selling Irish-published book last year with 49,307 copies sold. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury Press) was Irelandâs overall best-selling book with 67,926 copies sold in total, just ahead of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
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As 2020 comes to an end, Richland Library took a look back at the trending items among its 240,000+ library card holders across its 13 facilities from over the year.
Library representatives compiled lists of the top five circulated books, music and TV shows/movies from both the physical and digital collections. They span a variety of genres and include picks from the New York Times Best Sellers list, the 2020 National Book Awards longlist, as well as Tony Award and Academy Award nominees and winners.
Adult Books (physical collection)
Here are the most-borrowed books of 2020 from Sudbury s Goodnow Library
SUDBURY Ann Patchett s novel, The Dutch House, tops the list of the most-borrowed books from the Goodnow Library in 2020.
The book is a family saga centering on a brother and sister over the span of five decades. Siblings Danny and Maeve are exiled from the eponymous Dutch House the ornate mansion where they grew up by their stepmother after their father dies. They are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped and must rely on each other to survive.
The list, which includes literary fiction, manga, cookbooks, children s books, and thrillers, shows that the unusual year gave way to unusual borrowing habits.
We really had no idea what was coming.
It goes without saying that 2020 was an insane, unexpected and completely absurd year. Like many others, I found solace in connecting with friends and family and spending more time on my hobbies. This included reading, writing, baking, or just watching TV shows and movies.
Below are a few of the things that got me through this incredibly messed up year.
Favourite TV show:
I remember looking forward to the second season of Netflixâs The
Umbrella Academy all year, and when it was finally released in July, it was something familiar amid the craziness of the pandemic. The second season was filled with the hilarious family banter and weirdness that I loved in the first season.