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Originally Posted by DNSB
Last time I looked, the library gets to pay extra for each concurrent loan. Much the same as physical books, CDs, etc. -- you pay extra for the extra copies. Perhaps your local libraries have unlimited budgets? Around here, the budgets are limited (and limiting).
As for the physical copy being available? Unless you are planning on purchasing the book, my experience has been that popular books are popular books in paper or electronic form and you will be waiting for either. When I look at a couple of books that are arriving at the local library in early September, one has 23 holds on 4 paper copies and 18 holds on 4 electronic copies while the other has 34 holds on 5 paper copies and 31 holds on 5 electronic copies.
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You're not telling me anything I don't know. It's still stupid that limits are placed on digital files when there's no practical reason for it.