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Had a look at the BC stats for the various books mentioned upthread:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: 15 copies/122 waiting
The Girl Who Played with Fire: 6 copies/44 waiting
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: 6 copies/49 waiting
Private (James Patterson): EPUB 4 copies/41 waiting; WMA 4 copies/21 waiting
The Help (Kathryn Stockett): EPUB 5 copies/29 waiting; WMA 4 copies/25 waiting
Veil of Night (Linda Howard): WMA 5 copies/22 waiting
Innocent (assuming Scott Turow and not Ian McEwan): EPUB 1 copy/8 waiting; WMA 1 copy/6 waiting
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender): EPUB 1 copy/3 waiting; WMA 2 copies/1 waiting
All the other titles are not available to borrow as e-books.
Actually, once you get past the Steig Larsson and James Patterson stuff, it doesn't seem so bad, considering our entire province-wide population could probably fit into a modest-sized US city, and BC was counted in the top 10 for # e-books in the other thread. Pretty much everything that's not a recent best-seller or a popular audio title (classics, MP3 format mysteries) has at most 1-2 patrons waiting, usually, and I tend to get the notice for any holds often within a week of placing it.
But the default lend-time is 21 days (I have mine set to 7) + 3 days to pick up a hold, and the website instructions kind of bury the bit where you can return ADE books early on the format-specific help pages.
However, there are strict loan limits and all those people who're keeping theirs for the full 21 days can also only load up 5 items on their card at a time (excluding any hypothetical #$%^s who're using multiple cards for extra access), so I think it balances out.
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