The Book It! service directly impacts our purchasing decisions. It would be awesome if we could guarantee automatic purchase for every author regardless of how esoteric....but we would a. quickly run out of shelf space and b. quickly run out of money! This is why we don't include every single author (how can we?!). If enough people suggest the same new author, we'll absolutely add them to the list and make automatic purchasing and requests available! 

Same reason as above. Budget! Remember through, The Book It! perk automatically puts you in line for your favorite authors' next publications. You can still manually request any title by any author you want whenever you want, regardless of participation in this program.

Yes. This service is a privilege and a perk of the Roxbury Library. Because this directly impacts our purchasing and budget, we will remove members who consistently do not pick up their automatic holds. If you are no longer interested in an author, please email us and we can remove them so other users don't wait for your copy sitting on the hold shelf and so the library can reduce copies purchased.

Maybe, but probably not. We would blow up our materials budget if we purchased 1 copy of every book for every person on an author list (think about the folks who publish a new book every month, and just how many people are always in line for them!). Instead we maintain a 5 to 1 holds ratio. If 100 people want the same author, we'll therefore purchase 20 copies of the book. You will get the book, sometimes on street day but mostly not.  

At this time no, but we hope to expand the Book It! service to include large type as a preference very soon. 

No. Our public catalog and eBook vendors don't talk to each other in this way which makes it impossible to apply this innovative feature to eBooks. However even if it was possible, we still wouldn't do it because eBooks cost the library 4-5 times as much as regular books (yes, really) per copy. There is zero chance of this being financially feasible even if it were technologically feasible.