Libraries never have book copies!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an avid reader and my prior county’s library often had tons of books I wanted to read. I moved to Loudoun about 7 years ago and pretty much haven’t had any luck since. I tried reading ebooks because you can get them easier but I just didn’t enjoy reading them as much.

For my birthday this year I got about 10 books and have enjoyed reading physical books again. So I made a list of all the books I wanted to read and… the library didn’t have a single one of them. The best I could get was a copy that would be available in 10 weeks. These aren’t brand new books, but they are popular ones. Part of the problem is that I like reading series and obviously I need to get them in the order I want to read them, which makes it really hard with library books. When books do come up in the queue for me, I’m in the middle of a different series and can’t drop everything to read the library books then.

Anyone else run into this issue? I wouldn’t even mind buying books, but it seems like a waste because I only want to read it once and would just donate after. Why isn’t book rental a thing?

Just buy the book and sell it after.

I just can't afford it because I would basically like a book a week x $15. I don't have enough time for online selling.

Just go to thrift books. You can get them for like $3 each.

I like interlibrary loan, but it doesn't sound like you have the time and patience for the leg work (no judgment on that).

I have looked on thrift books, eBay, Amazon- $16 is more like it. A few were $9 but most over $16.

I understand not having room for physical books but why are there unlimited audiobooks but not ebooks?

There are not unlimited audiobooks. I wait in the hold queue for them as well.

Not for my library. I’ve never once waited for an audiobook on hoopla. It’s basically unlimited (well 6 books a month).

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an avid reader and my prior county’s library often had tons of books I wanted to read. I moved to Loudoun about 7 years ago and pretty much haven’t had any luck since. I tried reading ebooks because you can get them easier but I just didn’t enjoy reading them as much.

For my birthday this year I got about 10 books and have enjoyed reading physical books again. So I made a list of all the books I wanted to read and… the library didn’t have a single one of them. The best I could get was a copy that would be available in 10 weeks. These aren’t brand new books, but they are popular ones. Part of the problem is that I like reading series and obviously I need to get them in the order I want to read them, which makes it really hard with library books. When books do come up in the queue for me, I’m in the middle of a different series and can’t drop everything to read the library books then.

Anyone else run into this issue? I wouldn’t even mind buying books, but it seems like a waste because I only want to read it once and would just donate after. Why isn’t book rental a thing?

Just buy the book and sell it after.

I just can't afford it because I would basically like a book a week x $15. I don't have enough time for online selling.

Just go to thrift books. You can get them for like $3 each.

I like interlibrary loan, but it doesn't sound like you have the time and patience for the leg work (no judgment on that).

I have looked on thrift books, eBay, Amazon- $16 is more like it. A few were $9 but most over $16.

I understand not having room for physical books but why are there unlimited audiobooks but not ebooks?

There are not unlimited audiobooks. I wait in the hold queue for them as well.

Not for my library. I’ve never once waited for an audiobook on hoopla. It’s basically unlimited (well 6 books a month).

That's the difference between Libby and Hoopla. Libby has stuff that you often have to wait for. Hoopla is on demand.

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Anonymous wrote:In LCPL, you can use the Suggest a Title feature on the website to ask them to purchase books.

https://catalog.library.loudoun.gov/responsive?section=sap

You can use the ILL feature to ask for books from outside the system.

https://library.loudoun.gov/Services/Interlibrary-Loan


You can also explore the systems around Loudoun that offer reciprocal borrowing.

The following jurisdictions participate in the regional reciprocal borrowing program:

The cities of Falls Church, Alexandria and Winchester
The District of Columbia
Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, Clarke and Frederick counties in Virginia
Montgomery, Prince George's and Frederick counties in Maryland.

Does the library really need suggest a title when there are hundreds waiting for books on hold? Isn’t it obvious?

Suggest a title is for books not already in the catalog. There's a formula to order extra copies of books based on the number of holds.

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Anonymous wrote:Get your reciprocal Fairfax card for sure. You can put a hold in books and pick them up at a convenient location. I've found stuff browsing at Fairfax that I had a longer Libby hold on.

And Prince William.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Montgomery County...I have to plan ahead. I can't just walk in to my closest library and expect them to have what I'm looking for. I go on the website and search the catalog at home. I can easily click Place Hold and they will transit the book to my Home library.

“Transit” the book? Do you mean “send,” “ship,” or “transfer?” As an avid reader, you should be able to write better than this.

Someone reported this thread and responses to this were deleted. Transit is what it's called in MCPL when they are bringing it to your local library.

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To the poster who can get everything on Hoopla -- what are you getting?? And where are you? I went through my extensive hold list and my goodreads want to read list yesterday trying to find Hoopla books check out before May ended. I think I checked 30 books and none were available! I did find three eventually, so that was good. But they definitely were not the 3 at the top of my list.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Montgomery County...I have to plan ahead. I can't just walk in to my closest library and expect them to have what I'm looking for. I go on the website and search the catalog at home. I can easily click Place Hold and they will transit the book to my Home library.

“Transit” the book? Do you mean “send,” “ship,” or “transfer?” As an avid reader, you should be able to write better than this.

Someone reported this thread and responses to this were deleted. Transit is what it's called in MCPL when they are bringing it to your local library.

Sure, when a book is "in transit" it's being sent to your local library. Or brought, the verb that you used, which is far better than the clunky "transited."

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Montgomery County...I have to plan ahead. I can't just walk in to my closest library and expect them to have what I'm looking for. I go on the website and search the catalog at home. I can easily click Place Hold and they will transit the book to my Home library.

“Transit” the book? Do you mean “send,” “ship,” or “transfer?” As an avid reader, you should be able to write better than this.

Someone reported this thread and responses to this were deleted. Transit is what it's called in MCPL when they are bringing it to your local library.

Sure, when a book is "in transit" it's being sent to your local library. Or brought, the verb that you used, which is far better than the clunky "transited."

You care too much. Transit is the word that MCPL uses. It seemed like the best word to get my point across. Can you just get a hobby or do something else? Let it go.

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Anonymous wrote:To the poster who can get everything on Hoopla -- what are you getting?? And where are you? I went through my extensive hold list and my goodreads want to read list yesterday trying to find Hoopla books check out before May ended. I think I checked 30 books and none were available! I did find three eventually, so that was good. But they definitely were not the 3 at the top of my list.

Hi- sorry I can't get everything on Hoopla. I just meant that for the stuff they do have, it's unlimited copies. They never say that something is checked out. Audiobook selection is the best I've found anywhere. I have found that if Hoopla doesn't have it, the library DEFINTIELY doesn't have it and/or it would be a massive waiting list for it so I pass on the book. Audible is like $15 for one audiobook a month and on hoopla I get to read about 6 a month typically.

I applaud you all who can do the book waitlist thing. I had just stopped reading instead and I think it wasn't the best option for me. I really had enjoyed reading.