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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Examples of book you can't find OP? [/quote]

NP. Anything by the booktok authors has a wait list that's super long- Maas, Armentrout, Yarros (292 people waiting for her most recent book and I'm sure even more want it but are discouraged by the wait so they don't even both placing a hold). I like all fantasy though.

But I also couldn't find anything on the shelves for my kids either. I like to read chapter books at night to them. There wasn't any Percy Jackson! I probably could order from other libraries for those books, but I don't spend as much time trying to source kid books as I do my own.

Surprisingly I can find audiobooks much easier than ebooks. It seems they have unlimited copies of those. Wish I could read the actual books though.[/quote]

I’m in MoCo and some popular books have hundreds of people in the queue. For example, I recently put James on hold and it was over 600. Similarly for The Women soon after it came out- I think I was #500 something.

But even with less popular/less recent books, there’s a good chance that the closest library doesn’t have it. I just order it from another branch. I guess I don’t expect every possible book to be available at the closest branch.

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Why can’t they work with publishers to get more copies of ebooks temporarily the first year? They do have audiobooks. [/quote]

They do. When ebook holds exceed a certain about, the library will acquire more copies. Then when a book is no longer popular they only keep a handful of ebook and audio copies. [/quote]

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