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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Auto checkout is a horrible nasty feature. It means longer on the wait list when the person borrowing the eBook isn;t going to read it. It just sits there wasting time.
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Except that it means longer on the waitlist when the borrower uses up the full three or four day grace period before checking the book out; that can add more than 25% to the total time of that borrow than if autocheckout had been activated.
I do agree that redelivery will help a lot with the problem of books that get checked out and never get read and also help borrowers who have a bunch of books land at once, but it will also add time to borrows as people wait for the first in line to get around to checking out the book. I think the most important factor is not using up the book licenses, though and I see the new policy as a win.