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Depends on the book. If the book is less valuable then membership costs yes, else people might make a business out of selling overdue books.
by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Depends on the book. If the book is less valuable then membership costs yes, else people might make a business out of selling overdue books.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> else people might make a business out of selling overdue books How many books can you sign out at once? Like five or something? You think people are going to make a business out of selling five books on a street corner? How much do you think they’ll fetch given they’re already free at the library? Lunacy.
- karaterobot 5y agoLooks like 50 unless you're a teacher. Still not worth the trouble trying to find someone to buy a copy of Harry Potter that says "property of NYPL" on it when they're a dime a dozen already. https://www.nypl.org/help/borrowing-materials https://www.nypl.org/help/borrowing-materials
- KorematsuFredt 5y agoAgain depends on the book. Some textbooks might be fairly valuable which students might sell to their juniors after they are done with its use.
- lalaland1125 5y agoThe replacement fees aren't changing at all. This is solely about eliminating late fees. If someone is going to be stealing books from the library and selling them under the new system, the incentives to do that would be exactly the same as under the old system.
- karaterobot 5y agoNone of the books you could check out on a library card would be worth it. You'd be checking out circulation material, not special collections items (rare manuscripts and such), and they'd all be clearly marked as library materials, so of much lower value on the secondary market than a regular used copy of the same book would be.
- dragonwriter 5y agoLots of books on the secondary market have library markings (usually, lined out with Sharpies or the like), because lots of them are stuff retired from library collections.
- loonster 5y agoIn the past year, I bought a couple hundred picture books for my kids. I average around $4 most of that is shipping charges. Most of the books I get are former library books.