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Originally Posted by Blossom
Does this make any sense?
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I posted some similarly wacky numbers regarding one of my holds a few pages ago in this thread. FizzyWater suggested what seemed like the most likely explanation:
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Any chance that your library has the "Advantage" checkmark on some books? If so, that means your specific library in a consortium of libraries has bought copies of its own or contributed more to them and users of that library supposedly get "first dibs" on those books.
http://partners.overdrive.com/servic...nts/advantage/
So, you say your library (consortium?) has 7 copies. Maybe your specific library bought 5 of the 7 copies available to users of that Overdrive site. So even though you're 174th in line, you have specific access to the 5 copies that not all the other users in line have.
It's just a guess - I've never been able to tell when I'm in line if I've been bumped because of an advantage to someone else in line. I have occasionally moved back in line, but it's rare enough I've just assumed I didn't enter the number in my tracking spreadsheet correctly in the first place. It could be for the most part, my libraries are the ones most likely to buy advantage, so I usually have the benefit.  |