I'm still trying to decide whether I need to abandon my current library habits.Anybody else feel similarly?
If I can put my name on a "hot pick" list and get a new release within a few months for free, admittedly with only a week to read it and no renewals, then I'm not sure there's any reason to buy an e-reader or pay for e-books.
However libraries could hypothetically save a lot of state funds and maybe even bring in a little revenue by acquiring the lending rights to new releases instead of buying a couple crates of hardbacks. The "e-hot-pick" could go out to say 100 readers for up to one week. As soon as one reader's week expires it disappears from their e-reader, the next reader gets some sort of electronic notification, and their hardware downloads it for one week.
I'd pay 99 cents for the convenience of skipping two trips to the library. The library doesn't have to manually handle a couple more crates of books, and the author's book gets out there a lot faster in higher volume.