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Originally Posted by issybird
I just found out indirectly that FLP is terminating access to Hoopla. If Charlotte Mecklenburg gets an influx of new nonresident members as a result, it could be worrisome as the cards won’t begin to cover the cost for heavy Hoopla users. I am very grateful to know of it as an alternative for now, however.
Philly is the second big city library I know which has dropped Hoopla; Boston ended access to its audiobooks (which is what I use it for) - and if big cities can’t afford or justify it, prospects seem dim. Fortunately for me, my local library starting offering it this past pandemic year, after I’d been told sometime earlier on asking that it was too expensive. But I worry; the amount it would cost just to listen to the Wodehouse novels I borrow would be staggering, and those are not my only borrows.
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I think it's more likely that libraries will stop allowing nonresident users, or will up the nonresident price. Or will limit the number of Hoopla checkouts.
There were a few other nonresident Hoopla options--Houston, as well as Florida and Virginia, though the latter two were a bit pricey, if I recall correctly.
Are there really so many people, though, outside of this bunch of reading fanatics, who actively seek out multiple libraries and overwhelm them by excessive borrowing?