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Originally Posted by Rainger99
When I originally called the library, I was told over the phone that Hoopla was limited to five books a day for the entire county. This did not seem right so I sent several emails to the library and finally got the answer that the budget is $280 a day.
(I expect that the person who answered the phone did not know the hoopla budget. I was at the pinellas library last week and asked the librarian about the hoopla budget and she had no information on it.)
$280 a day is a little over $100,000 a year. The cost seems to vary depending on whether it is a movie, an ebook, or an audio book. And some publishers appear to charge different rates per item so it is impossible to calculate how many items can be checked out per day. If everyone checked out books, we could probably get more books per day than movies.
I doubt that the library is paying $56 a book. At least I hope they aren’t!
As for buying a book, how often do you read books more than once?
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I had a problem with my reader yesterday and went to the library today for help.
Local expert helped me and asked her about this.
We can individually take out 5 books at one time and have 5 books on reserve.
She was not aware of daily limit for county so no help there.
Asked her why Lake and Marion have access to Sumter but we do not. She had no idea why and agrees it makes no sense.