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reaperducer 2 hours ago

and there's another library in the interlibrary loan network that has a copy, there's no practical reason to keep another copy. If you can request a book and have it arrive in a few days

I've done ILL in three major cities. The shortest time it took to get the books requested was 14 days. Some have taken over 60.

bastawhiz 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can request a book from another library that's already checked out in some cases, which means you have to wait for it to be returned first. In my experience, a week is usually the norm.

ghaff an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That seems like a very reasonable timeframe for a physical book. Certainly used to take longer than that to special-order something.