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Originally Posted by Asawi
That's kind of unfair isn't it? I'd say it's making (relatively) sure the people that borrow the books follow the rules they agree to follow. Meaning if you agree to a 21 day lending period, why should you expect access after those 21 days have passed?
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Short, whiny answer - because we had it before.
Yes, it was a nice surprise to find that I could squeeze an extra couple of hrs out to finish
Fall of Giants (that's the only book I can remember needing a bit of extra time to finish) and yes, it would've been annoying to have gone back on a long waiting list to have to finish it. So yes, it's a bit of a rude awakening for folks to find that things that used to happen don't any more. Although in my case I'm usually returning books before their due date. And in truth, it's not a very consistent policy since audio books (apparently) don't really expire after
their due dates.
I didn't make that comment about publishers making digital books inconvenient in a vacuum though - I was just adding it to the lengthening list of things they appear to do to try to make them less convenient/appealing, like pulling more and more eBooks from their "Lendable" list on Amazon/B&N; limiting the # of times a digital book can be checked out from Overdrive - which wouldn't be so bad if they'd set a more reasonable limit; setting higher prices for eBooks than the paper editions; some publishers not putting their eBooks on Overdrive at all; etc, etc.