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Originally Posted by Renate
I try to use the shortest borrowing time to keep the books in circulation.
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For many ebooks, this makes no difference, since libraries pay the publisher each time they loan out the ebook.
Basically, libraries buy multipacks of loans on each ebook, and then loan them out. Each loan decreases the number available, regardless of how long the loan lasts. Renewals of the loan length don't decrease the counter.
So, when you return an ebook loan, you aren't really doing anything to give anybody else a better chance to check it out. If your library has more loans left, then other users can check it out. If you used up the last loan, then it doesn't matter when you return it. All that matters is when you library pays for more loans.