Thread: Kindle Unlimited borrow limit is now 20 titles
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Old 12-13-2021, 12:35 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by LDB View Post
Anyway, on topic, why is there a limit? What purpose does it serve, unlike at the public library where someone taking out 100 books at once deprives potentially 99 other people from reading a book? It's not like they have only X number of digital files to download.
Books go in and out of KU over time. I believe that if you have a book borrowed you will be able to keep it until you return it so that you have time to finish it even if the publisher pulls the book from KU. Having unlimited borrows would be problematic for that.
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