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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I was on the Sumter County Library website and was trying to check a book out on Hoopla which is a digital library - books, videos, etc.
However, when I tried to check a book out, I got the following message.
The collective daily borrow limit set by your library has been reached and will reset at midnight. Please browse and add titles to favorites so you can easily access them after midnight.
I called the library to find out what the library's daily borrowing limit is and they told me that it is 5 books for the entire county. Not five books per patron - five for the county!!
According to Wikipedia, the population of the county was 129,752 in 2020. Assuming that 25% of the people have library cards, that would be 32,500 people having access to just five books a day on Hoopla.
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This just happened to me the other day also. I called the library and spoke with a lady about it. She told me that Hoopla only allows a certain number of electronic check outs per library district and that when you get that message it means they have met the limit for the day. She told me it resets at midnight. The next morning I went in and checked out the book with no problem. I know it has nothing to do with limits per person because this is the only time I tried to check out a book electronically so I certainly had not used up any "5 per person or per month" limit.