As Helen suggested, make sure you are looking at all books in your library's collection. If you search only the books that are currently available, you probably won't see a lot of the more popular books. You may need to look at the whole library collection and put some books on hold.
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Originally Posted by Dazrin
That is my situation too, I have learned that I need to reserve books in a series with the future in mind since the popular ones have such long waiting lists. I will guess when a book is going to be available based on # of copies and # on the list and then reserve the next one in the series so that it should be available shortly after the first one, even if I am not sure I will want to continue, I can always cancel my hold if I don't care for the series or want a break.
Sorry to hear that.  I hope you are able to find something again quickly! |
I do this too - as soon as I check out one book in a series, I place a hold on the next. I typically will have two or three series going at any give time; that way usually at least one book I want to read will become available soon. My library allows only five holds and four checkouts so there's a limit to the series juggling I can do.
My library has a pretty good selection, but some series have only a few books, or big gaps. Of course this works out well for the publishers - sometimes I just have to know what happens in the next book so I buy it rather than wait and hope the library will acquire it. Maybe the publishers are colluding with my library to make me buy books
