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> One book may be borrowed hundreds, if not thousands of times. Except requiring the physical book (or single book digital equivalent) controls the pace. If a
by matwood 6y ago
> One book may be borrowed hundreds, if not thousands of times.
Except requiring the physical book (or single book digital equivalent) controls the pace. If a standard checkout is 2 weeks, and if the book is always checked out, it will still take 4 years to hit 100 lends. And a thousand lends? Close to 40 years.
- sukilot 6y agoThat's a difference in scale, but it doesn't make libraries right at the spot they sit. Do libraries pay 100x price for their books? Be careful to avoid reasoning from an axiom that the way things worked when you grew up was the correct way. It's a pernicious psychological bias we all suffer from.