Depends on the book. Sometimes I need the whole thing so I keep it. If it’s one article then I scan it and return it.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah I too sometimes keep books for a while, that's kind of the point - but I mean keeping it for months and years on end..? I just don't bother borrowing books if I have no time to read them (meaning I hardly ever borrow books but that's beside the point).
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Replying to @AnotherAspirin
I will keep books for months, if I need it for a chapter. I take a long time to write and going to the library is a pain for me, since my library isn’t really optimized for user experience imo.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Hmm yes I *did* always have the luxury of well-run/user-friendly libraries (except for one, which I could luckily afford to avoid at the time)...
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Replying to @AnotherAspirin
We only recently got the ability to take out more than 10 books at a time as PhD students and to have loans longer than a month. Online ILL requests were only just implemented. My library is pretty backwards sometimes.
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Now I can take 20 out at a time. Not sure about UGs.
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But we are a legal deposit library, we have millions of books.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @AnotherAspirin
I am so confused by this. UVA had a limit but I think it was... 500? Like no one ever got there (no matter how hard we tried). What even.
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Yeah when I was an UG in Canada doing my Honours degree I had 3 month long holds and a max of 50 books to take out I think. But the limit before was still pretty high. But idk, this place feels decades behind with many things.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @AnotherAspirin
How bizarre. Where are you again? Feel free to DM if you don't wanna call out your institution publicly lol
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