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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Quite likely. Every so often you see a listing in the catalogue which is unavailable because it's "In Mends". But that generally tends to be for older books with only a few copies that it looks like someone may have treated badly (and kids' books).
Personally, I kind of doubt that regular hardcover books fall apart after 26 full-length reads unless they're really shoddily bound or a lot of people are basically abusing the books.
But the libraries around here seem to have a shared in-house repair system (one of the librarians for another municipality once told me that they kept a special machine in the basement for polishing the scratches out of CDs & DVDs, which sometimes made unreadable ones work again), so maybe that lowers the cost.
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not sure if you know this but you can even buy relatively inexpensive consumer versions of these devices. I've even use some of the optical grade cerium oxide polish I have to polish glassware or even my reading glasses to buff out a problematic CD by hand and get it back to workable. But the CD/DVD buffing (repair) devices are out there and very easy to use and they work most of the time.