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Old 04-22-2011, 08:26 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
So it is a nice idea, but maybe not so important in practice. The pragmatic thing is to let the borrower set their own lending period, or start with a 7 day lending period but allow a limited number of renewals, or something along those lines. The libraries I borrow ebooks from let you set it as 7, 14, or 21 days as a default, which you can change on checkout.
It is important in practice. I just looked at an eBook that at the full 21 days per borrow would take about 4 months for the last 16 or 18 users to get it. When we add in Kindle users, this will most likely increase. So being able to borrow for 21 or 14 days and return early is important.

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