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Originally Posted by elcreative
It's not 26 checkouts per year, it's 26 checkouts per book... if everyone only kept it for a week then the library would have to re-buy after 6 months...
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Yes, that's my point. The library will need to budget for twice the number of checkouts in a year.
If a library has one book available for checkout and the check out period is for 2 weeks/14 days, that equals 26 checkouts in a year. If they change the checkout period to 1 week, that equals 52 checkouts in a year.
Yes, there are folks who return their books early, but just as a baseline for calculating expenditures, the library needs to presume that the average customer will use the full checkout time allowed ("It gets returned/deleted automatically; why should I have to do anything?").
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Minor change of topic. My local library has a sign that says, "Pay your library fines, so we can buy more books!" Since ebooks are automatically returned, there's no such thing as fines. What would you (general you, not just elcreative) think of a library that charged a small fee for the longer checkout times? Or, allowed X ebooks per year before charging?