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Originally Posted by graycyn
For example: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.
My library has 5 copies. The wait list, as of this AM, was at 232. That's roughly 46 holds per copy. If everyone keeps it for the maximum of three weeks, then you are talking a wait of 139 days. Fortunately, some folks do return early and some use shorter checkout options. But that wait list number still keeps climbing! It's higher now than when I finally got the book earlier this spring.
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Toronto Public Library current has 474 copies of this in paper with 322 holds. The e-book edition has 40 copies (!) with 83 holds at the moment.
I'm thinking the wait for the ebook is actually less since, while the paper might get returned sooner, it likely would have to go through the inter-library loan system to get near me and then I'd stil have to schlep over to get it (and later return it).
I wonder if the library can "retire" some of these 40 ebooks licenses at some point and "trade" them for something else from Overdrive when the depend drops?