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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
It doesn't quite work like that. Sure, those that came first shall get the book first. Suspending is keeping your spot, even moving up all the way to #1. So after months of waiting you make it to #2, and you should get the book soonish, right? Except now 4 or 5 people unsuspend their holds and all of them jump ahead of you. They may have never worried about exactly when they get there, since they have 20 other books also on suspend.
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But on the other hand, if 4 or 5 people were able to unsuspend their holds, they had to initiate the holds to begin with, moving you up much quicker in the queue. So if they then decide to unsuspend their holds, you're just back to where you should have been initially.
Also, if I know I have about a week left to finish up a current book when a library book becomes available to me, I'll put it on hold because I see no reason that someone else can't be reading it rather than sitting in my reader for a week while I finish reading something else. To me it would just be selfish not to place a hold on it then to let someone else borrow it.
I don't think anyone using the hold feature is trying to game the system or take advantage of it or of other library members no matter what their reason is for a particular hold. That's the way holds are meant to work, letting others behind you in the hold list read the book ahead of you without losing your place in line.