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I go through all of ours in Seattle compulsively (surprise, surprise!) when they're added each month, around the 18th or so. The batch before last, we had 900 more, but that was a bit misleading as there had to be close to 100 Fodors guides among them. In addition, we get how-to stuff like sewing ideas, etc. They're far from all books one "reads" (as such).
I don't understand the Overdrive catalog "update" thing, but the Harper Collins-related article in the Seattle Times quoted our acquisitions staff as saying something like: "The policy is for forthcoming books, not the 'current' ones." Whatever that distinction may be exactly .....
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