{"id":258398,"date":"2026-08-03T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258398\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:40:06","slug":"nolan-film-drives-waitlist-spike-for-the-odyssey-at-philadelphia-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258398\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Film Drives Waitlist Spike for &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; at Philadelphia Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nolan&#8217;s new film has heightened interest in Homer&#8217;s 2,700-year-old epic The Odyssey at the <a href=\"https:\/\/957benfm.com\/tag\/Philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> Free Library, resulting in longer waitlists for print, ebooks, and audiobooks.<\/p>\n<p>The library&#8217;s Odyssey collection spans 37 distinct versions across formats, including more than 200 ebook copies of seven editions and 43 digital audiobooks, with more than 525 people currently waiting.<\/p>\n<p>An always-available ebook version allows readers to start immediately, helping to bypass some wait times.<\/p>\n<p>To address demand, the library plans to acquire more licenses for ebooks and audiobooks to reduce patron wait times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan&#8217;s new film has heightened interest in Homer&#8217;s 2,700-year-old epic The Odyssey at the Philadelphia Free Library,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-258398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}