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Old 08-14-2014, 12:48 PM   #1003
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Yep. While there's a slight offset from the time gained between availability and being checked out, it won't nearly compensate for the books that wouldn't have been checked out at all, especially since those who routinely take full advantage of the borrow period (four days in Boston, just as one example) will be sure to uncheck auto checkout.
If I was on say 7 day borrow normally, I might up it to 14 days just because of auto checkout because if I lose any time while it's in the borrow shelf, I won't lose any reading time.

So really, this could cause the wait times to be much longer then they were before auto checkout.
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