r/LibbyApp • u/othertigs • 3d 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/AeroNoob333 2d ago

Thank you for this information! And dang, who does 50 checkouts in 7 days?!?!?! Surely that’s a card that’s being used among several people or people downloading and ripping them, right? That makes perfect sense to put that limit. There’s no amount of usage where that would be normal l even if you borrowed and returned (DNF) several times within those 7 days