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Louisville Free Public Library breaks 2022 digital checkout record

Over one million e-books and audiobooks were borrowed by Louisvillians.

January 3, 2023 • 
Katie Molck
LOUtoday_books at the library

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💻 E-books
🎧 Audiobooks

The Louisville Free Public Library hit a two-year streak for surpassing one million digital library checkouts and broke its 2021 e-book record with 1,235,000 e-books borrowed in 2022.

Since 2011, the library has provided free, 24/7 access to its e-book and audiobook catalog to library cardholders. Don’t have a library card? Time to get one.

Here are the top three e-books and audiobooks borrowed in 2022:

💻 E-books

  • “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave
  • “Verity” by Colleen Hoover
  • “Apples Never Fall” by Liane Moriarty

🎧 Audiobooks

  • “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
  • “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave
  • “Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
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