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Originally Posted by meeera
What makes you think you know better than I do how my Australian public library system works? Your hubris is out of control in this thread.
In my local system, for both paper books and ebooks, everyone who places a purchase request also has a book reserve placed in their name in the system, and the number of reserves is visible to logged-in library users when the book goes onto the Ordered list in the library catalogue. So I in fact have an extremely accurate idea of how many people also placed a purchase request for a book I have requested. It's usually 1; sometimes 2 or 3. The pbook library is not a small-town library, it's a standard suburban one; four B&M branches in one LGA, joined into a single book/catalogue pool. The ebook library is a State one.
Are you trying to change the goalposts to some hand-waving "total book spend" rather than "ways to support your favourite authors" now?
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No, it means that I think I know better than you do how libraries and especially large public libraries work in the United States. I've actually worked in public libraries in the US. That's how they work. What is it with Australians thinking they know how things work in the US? I thought it was the ugly Americans who had the reputation of assuming everything worked just like home all over the world.