Maybe I live in a stupid town. If I were to put a hold on it today, I’d be #3 out of 8 copies. So maybe a week or two?? I’m not putting a hold on it yet; I’m in the middle of several other books.
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@VeryHappy -you probably live in a much smaller town. I live in a major city so my local library is part of a very large library system.
I’m in our online county library system. No idea how many in the library system but around 1.2m people in the county so …there is almost always a wait for popular books.
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My D just finished God of the Woods and is sending it to me. She was a counselor and a division leader at a girl’s camp, so she enjoyed the camp setting.
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I live in a big city, but if I divide it out, the waitlist today on the hard copy would be 5 for each copy so not as bad as the ebook is – 20 holds per copy! The ebook waiting lists are always much longer.
So last night I put God of the Woods on hold in our county system (they have a huge ebook library) - it was supposed to be a 12 week wait. I just went to check its hold stats to post here and discovered it showed up on the “Skip the Line” list - this is a small rotating group of popular books that can be checked out immediately for seven days instead of the the usual checkout of up to 21 days. You have to catch the books when they go onto the list; sometimes they go off quickly. So I checked it out!
Now I have to finish the book I’m reading, this book, and reread the two CC Book Club books. Not a problem!
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I would be 32 in line for 3 ebook/Libby copies of God of the Woods but I’m already at the max of 5 holds and I don’t want to give up any of those 5. I miss the days when few people in our library system used Libby. I could almost always get the book quickly a few years ago. I’ll have to log onto the library catalog and see what the wait is for the physical copy. (I don’t do audio books because my attention wanders.)
Do the number of holds in Libby vary by library? I currently have 9 holds and have had more than that.
I can put 10 ebooks on hold via Libby in the San Diego County system. And have 10 ebooks checked out. I have come close to the max.
I just looked that up and yes in Libby the library sets how many check outs and how many holds.
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Our library system (also uses Libby) allows 10 holds. I do know of others that allow up to 100! Some friends of mine went into San Francisco to sign up at their library to take advantage of that. So yes seems to vary by library.
The New York Public Library only allows 3 holds and 3 titles checked out, but at least it’s for 21 days.
Our checkouts are 21 days too. Is that standard? When I was a kid I recall it was always 14 days, but that was long long ago and far far away…
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I’m not sure, but another library I belong to only allows 14 day checkouts for eBooks, 21 for most print books.
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We have 21 days , but some books are kept out a lot longer( we can check availability). I know the limit is 50 for physical books ( my queue currently is at 39), but no idea for ebooks.
With Libby if the book is on my Kindle I just put it in airplane mode. It gets returned, but I can keep reading. Of course I can’t download anything else in the meantime!
I just finished Robin Hobb’s Ship of Magic the first book of the second trilogy in her world. It was so good, but also so not the end of the story. Robin Hobb has a huge fanclub on line, but there’s only one copy of this book in our entire library system which I do not understand at all.
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I can have up to 25 holds for ebooks. There have been times when I’ve bumped up to that limit.
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In 1971 I attended a week long camp in the Adirondack’s so the setting was very vivid and I then listened to an interview with author ( this is not a spoiler in any way)
And she attended Adirondack camp for two years as a 11 year old, and her family has owned a cabin for generations and she takes her family up regularly from Philly-
So she knows camp life so well !
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My town is actually a small city with a population around 92,000. So not small at all. And I do love the library!
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Just finished The God of the Woods and I liked it well enough. I basically read it straight through - not a fan of jumping from character to character and time to time, so easier to remember who everyone is by not taking a break. At least the chapters identified the year/month! It was like a jigsaw puzzle where you’re putting together small groups of pieces but no idea of the big picture so you keep moving from group to group. And missing some of the edge pieces to give you a framework ;).
Trying to avoid spoilers…I did figure out one of the two mysteries partway through. And was happy that the book didn’t leave that hanging although there was a lot I still wanted to know about many of the characters who kind of remained in limbo.
I was also happy to actually like several of the characters instead of them all being unpleasant.
There seems to be a new trend that I ran into recently in a couple of future fantasy books where the author doesn’t really finish the story! You think you’re getting to the finish where probably something is going to happen to resolve the whole plotline - and the book just ends! I don’t want to have to finish the story - that’s the author’s job! And these are standalone books - not cliffhanger series.
Another trend that did happen in this book is where the author essentially tells you there are secrets - and some of the characters indicate there are secrets. But there haven’t been clues as to what they are so I think they are kind of tease. We know what you don’t know, ha ha!
Off to release the book back to Libby and the hundreds of people waiting for it.
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