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Chicago Public Library kicked reciprocal borrowers off ebooks a couple years ago. My suburban library allows 5 check-outs and 5 holds. Obviously, our family had to show proof of residency to get the library cards, but I have control of the 3 cards (for my husband, my daughter and me). So I can checkout 15 at a time and have 15 on hold. My daughter (age 15) doesn't read ebooks (and doesn't check pbooks out of the library, has to have a NEW copy), and I recognize what my husband would be interested in.
Wait lists are relatively short: I can usually get in within the first 5. I rarely have 15 holds. But one month, I was #13 on the waitlist, and the library quickly bought 7 copies, so I didn't wait very long.
My library does not have a lot of books that I am interested in checking out. They have mostly romances, but very light on political or nonfiction bestsellers. I asked the librarian about this, and she indicated it was because a lot of publishers refused to sell to libraries. I checked out a book on Mandela the other day, and told my husband the library would be interested he checked that out in the midst of the romances he checked out!
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