Use library access before buying books or audio

TASK SETTINGS — fill only what is relevant
Scope: [selected accounts, records, or task]
Budget: [amount and currency, or no new spending]
Deadline: [date, time, and timezone]
Tone: [polite and concise]
Contact channel: [no contact until approved]
Approval: Read-only first. Ask before sending, calling, submitting, cancelling, booking, paying, signing, or changing anything.

Check whether my existing public-library access can replace the paid books, audiobooks or magazines I am about to buy or renew. Start with the titles and reading or listening preferences I provide, not a generic claim that every library offers every item.

Identify the library cards I already hold and the services those libraries actually support. Search their official catalogs or supported borrowing apps for the exact title, author, edition, language and format. Check availability, holds, loan length, renewal rules, supported devices and relevant accessibility needs. A long wait is a real tradeoff, not an immediate substitute for a purchase.

Compare the paid option with legitimate borrowing for this specific reading list. Where a subscription is involved, check what other content I use before proposing a cancellation. Do not treat a title absent from one catalog as unavailable everywhere, but keep the search bounded to libraries for which I legitimately qualify.

Return a title-by-title table with the catalog link, availability, wait estimate if published, any setup step and the actual purchase cost that could be avoided. Do not invent residency, share a card, bypass lending restrictions, place holds, enroll in paid memberships or cancel anything without approval. Keep unknown availability explicit and finish after checking the authorized catalogs. Avoided spending is projected until I actually choose the borrowing option.

Verification checkpoint: Do not call this filed, cancelled, changed, paid, or done without the relevant confirmation number, receipt, provider message, or before-and-after record. Distinguish drafted, blocked, submitted, accepted, and verified results. A provider promise is not posted money. Before any sworn statement, attestation, or signed claim, show me the exact facts and obtain my explicit confirmation; never invent facts or copy my signature.