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Old 09-03-2024, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
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?
When you buy an ebook from Amazon, you can download it to as many Kindle ereaders as you want, although only about 6 people can read it simultaneously. My problem with borrowing ebooks from the library is that I usually have trouble finishing the book before it is due to be returned. Also, if you like to read the new best sellers, there is always a long waitlist for the book.