Thread: Do libraries expect you are hacking books?
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Old 05-22-2018, 11:31 AM   #73
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Who said anything about getting books for other people? If you use the holds so you can uninterrupted and all the time read only popular books, then it is kind of abusing the system. It is a matter of fairness, but ultimately only a matter of fairness as long as your own selfish needs are fulfilled.
Since my library allows only 6 holds and the most popular books have dozens of holds, I wouldn't get a lot of books read if that was all I did!

I usually don't even bother putting on hold a brand-new popular book that has 50 or 100 holds right out of the gate. I just put those on my wish list for later. I usually don't put anything on hold unless it has no more than maybe 10 people in line.

In the unlikely event that there were a brand-new hot book that I desperately wanted to read right away I would buy it.
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