<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello Oplinites,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Our library has subscribed to the print version of Consumer Reports for many years. This morning, a patron was looking for the comparison chart for gas furnaces. I found it on consumerreports.org, but even though we are print subscribers they wanted an additional $20 to enable web searches.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Have any of you paid this additional fee to access their
database? As a library, were you able to find any sort of free version offered through a special login? If you do subscribe to the online version, do you use it, or are most patrons still asking for the printed copies? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Thanks!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Robin</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Information & Reference</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Piqua Public Library</div></div></body></html>