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Originally Posted by issybird
By "wait eight weeks" I meant "wait eight weeks" to get the borrowing/waitlist process really underway. No matter how many copies a library licenses, only the lucky few are going to be first in line for any book. So it's a case of waitlist v. waitlist + eight weeks for most patrons anyway.
And your second paragraph was the point I made, that expiring licenses are a much more serious drawback than having a lag before a library can purchase multiple copies. I don't mind waiting, I expect to; but it's frustrating when I look for a book and see that the library used to have it and no longer does, leaving me SOL.
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I too find it really annoying when I see that a library has 0 copies on an eBook available. The problem is that I cannot then go and recommend it because they already have it. What I do is find where the online request form and use that to make my case to get another copy. It doesn't always work.