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Originally Posted by tomsem
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.
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I think if libraries see a sharp spike in wait times, they'll probably institute shorter loan periods for popular / new releases; say 7 days. I don't see them buying more copies because their budgets are already strained.