I wish that I could ask the library not to send me any more books until I’m done with the ones I already have: Netflix won’t send any more than X videos at a time, and if I could dial my library requests down to one at a time, I might be able to read everything before the next book shows up. (I’m limiting myself to one or two books for pleasure reading at a time these days, and that’s mostly what I get from the library.)

Instead, I make requests, get nothing for weeks, and then I get books showing up faster than I can read them. I could take them all out, and renew the ones I haven’t had time to read, but that’s denying someone else the books. Usually I just pick one and let the other holds expire, or take them out and return them promptly…