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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
My gripe is the waitlist. You can only put 6 books at a time on hold. Right now, I only have 1 book checked out, because there is nothing else I want to read. I wonder how the waitlist on Overdrive compares with the waitlist for pbooks?
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I can put up to 10 on hold at a time on my overdrive system. I still make good use of the pbooks at my library as well, so sometimes I will get on a list for both the ebook and the pbook. Invariably, the pbook comes in first. I have a few ideas on that. 1) Although I might be #265 on the pbook list and #20 on the ebook list (true story!), they have only one ebook copy (per format) and up to 10 or more pbooks at the different libraries. So they are able to go through the pbook list at a faster clip, 2) Unless someone actually wants to turn it in early so he/she can check out a new book, that ebook will be out for 3weeks (at least in our library, unless they changed it to 1 or 2, which I doubt people do frequently- it requires an extra click and you can't renew ebooks anyway). So #20 translates to 60 weeks, whereas 265 on a hot pick (one week max checkout time for popular new releases) with 10 copies translates to 27 weeks.
As a result, I almost always get the pbook faster (actually, can't remember when I got the ebook faster), which is fine, usually. I would say I read more pbooks from the library than ebooks (because of the bigger pbook collection), and I like it either way. The ebooks are more convenient though, especially with the return!