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Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by bluntfang »

Lurebees wrote: post #4
netizen-9748 wrote: post #3

Nothing displays with JavaScript disabled. Nothing on the landing page needed JavaScript, it was all text. The mechanism that actually did load the text broke my method of web dark mode. I gave up and left because it was a pain in the ass. I do have one question though, does the service cost money for deliveries?

Thanks for making the attempt. It works fine without JavaScript disabled. Is there a reason you have disabled it? Yes, it does cost money to delivery your books. However, your library books are free of cost (taxpayer funds).

> Is there a reason you have disabled it?

is there a reason to require javascript?

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

Congratulations OP.

If you could find a way to deliver books for rent in small towns of Tier2/3 cities where there are no proper libraries then you solve problems like 'I don't have access to a proper library in my city'[1] posted on my problem validation platform.

You're still welcomed to explain how Lurebees solves their problem.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/33-i-dont-have-access-to-a-prop... (Disclaimer: I created this platform).

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by dexterdog »

chovybizzass wrote: post #9

$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.

I can mail a book across the country for much less. Sure it's probably at a loss to the USPS z but I should be able to do a local delivery or pickup for a fraction of that esp if you could somehow tie in the local post office.

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by CapriciousCptl »

Lurebees wrote: post #2

Please share your feedback for any improvement or dislike.

I could be wrong but the price seems too high. If you find the same, I would consider doing a bit of market research estimating how much people use the library at areas particularly far from the library, and estimating a price you would need to make it work with batched deliveries (kind of like garbage day, your library day is...). Then set your price based on that and see if it takes off.

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by fiftyacorn »

faitswulff wrote: post #10

As soon as COVID is over, I’m planning to bring my kids to the library in person because it’s a whole experience. Do you have any plans beyond COVID for keeping the service running?

I grew up in Dunfermline, which was Andrew Carnegies birthplace, and was one of the first places to have a Carnegie library. It was/is an amazing library - in fact i got most of my uni books on loan there

I used it a lot growing up - and make a point of using libraries even over buying books because i think access to libraries is so important and when people don't use libraries it will be used as an excuse to defund them

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by tyingq »

dexterdog wrote: post #13
chovybizzass wrote: post #9

$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.

I can mail a book across the country for much less. Sure it's probably at a loss to the USPS z but I should be able to do a local delivery or pickup for a fraction of that esp if you could somehow tie in the local post office.

Especially cheap because of the USPS media mail rates: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Media-Mail-Book-Rate

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by egypturnash »

chovybizzass wrote: post #9

$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.

Hopefully that’s $7 to pick up/return an entire load of held books, not just one. I know when I was a kid my library card was constantly maxed out on how many books I could have out simultaneously, I think like 20 or 30? We’d go to the library pretty much weekly and bring back ones I’d read, along with the occasional book I’d decided to not finish, or ones I’d just never started on, and I’d get about that many new-to-me ones out.

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by alisonkisk »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #12

Congratulations OP. If you could find a way to deliver books for rent in small towns of Tier2/3 cities where there are no proper libraries then you solve problems like 'I don't have access to a proper library in my city'[1] posted on my problem validation platform. You're still welcomed to explain how Lurebees solves their problem. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/33-i-dont-have-access-to-a-prop... (Disclaimer: I cre…

Enough. Please stop spamming your site on every tangential thread.

Re: Delivering local library books to your doorstep

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Post by alisonkisk »

CapriciousCptl wrote: post #14
Lurebees wrote: post #2

Please share your feedback for any improvement or dislike.

I could be wrong but the price seems too high. If you find the same, I would consider doing a bit of market research estimating how much people use the library at areas particularly far from the library, and estimating a price you would need to make it work with batched deliveries (kind of like garbage day, your library day is...). Then set your price based on that and see if it takes off.

It costs about the same as food delivery and shop delivery.
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