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Originally Posted by tech_au
I noticed that they have now increased the borrowing limit to 12 items.
Gees, I read a book a week so it seems a little wasteful and just encourages people to checkout books they are not going to have time to read unless you are a pretty good speed reader  |
I agree increasing the limit to 12 is a bit much. I was very pleased when the reservation limit was increased from 2 to 6 (where it remains) but I think anything over 6 for the borrowing limit is just wasteful and will lead to borrowers hoarding books - especially as Singapore doesn't have an option to reduce the borrrowing time as many other libraries do. ADE does allow you to return them early but many people seem unaware of this option.
I am a very fast reader and can easily read a book in a day but I normally borrow 2 or 3 at a time and then a few days later I return them and borrow some more. I never borrow to my limit as you can never tell when your reserved books will become available.
I suppose those who may have infrequent access to the internet or those who are going away on holidays may benefit from being able to borrow more books in one go but surely that is only a small number of people?
I would think that most people only read a few books at a time so all the other books they just borrowed are just going to be sitting in their account inaccessable to everyone else until they get around to returning them.