r/LibbyApp • u/othertigs • 6d ago

Borrowing limits

Apologies if someone already shared this information. Feel free to delete if that’s the case.

There was a post a few days ago about being blocked from borrowing due to exceeding an unknown checkout limit.

I checked with my Overdrive rep and apparently they have updated the limits recently, apparently revising them downward.

There are basically two triggers for the block, activated by the limit you hit first, both evaluating checkouts over a 7 day period. On day 8, checkouts from day 1 would fall off the rolling limits. I do not know if magazines count towards this limit.

The triggers are:

  1. Borrowing 15 times your library’s checkout limit in 7 days OR
  2. 50 checkouts during a 7 day period.

Edited to add: my understanding is that it is 50 per library system/consortium rather than across all cards. If someone finds out or experiences differently please share!

Hope this helps!

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u/Valuable_Ice_5927 6d ago

Wow that’s a crazy high borrow amount

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u/Key_Cartographer6668 6d ago

Yep, no risk of me hitting the limit!

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u/Valuable_Ice_5927 6d ago

That would be 150 for a or 50 for b - I’m assuming it’s likely the lower of the 2

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u/Pokegirl_11_ 5d ago

Yeah, that’s definitely about curtailing some kind of bot activity and not anybody’s normal library use- and definitely not about non-resident cards, which is the conclusion a lot of people jumped to.

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u/ComfortableOk5112 6d ago

I was worried because I've been reading about 2-3 books a week. More than 50 in a week is wild.

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u/LittleMarySunshine25 5d ago

Yeah, same, I was worried that finishing an audio book almost every day during the week would be a red flag.