Does your library charge you to rent movies if so do you still rent them and why
@shaggin (73865)
United States
December 9, 2010 10:47am CST
About a year ago our library had a huge budget cut. They stopped allowing people to rent movies for free. You had to then pay $1 each to rent them. I am not sure how long you could keep the movies out for when you paid that. I think it might have been a week. It really wasent a bad price at all but I dont want to pay to rent movies so I just stopped borrowing movies from the library altogether. I assume everyone else was doing the same thing because they put it back to the way it was originally where you can rent movies for free and then they charge $1 a day late charge if its not bad on time. They make more money this way I feel because then people are renting the movies and like me they probably forget to return the movies on time and the $1 a day adds up fast.
How does your library go about letting you rent movies? Does your library have movies to rent? Are they DVD or just VHS? Our library has lots of both but with the DVDs you can only borrow 3 at a time. If your library charges you to rent movies how much do they charge? How much is the cost of the late fee if you dont return the movies on time? If your library starts charging to rent movies would you still borrow movies from there or no?
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@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
9 Dec 10
Never thought about it much when I was younger I suppose.
My library where I live they have never actually charged to rent the movies, but they do have like a $5 late fee for every week and it goes up by another $5 for every other week it is late or something of that sort.
Something I didn't know until I contacted them though was that they stopped renting VHS movies. Apparently they have gone totally DVD and BluRay.
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@shaggin (73865)
• United States
9 Dec 10
Wow that is surprising that they no long rent out vhs movies. Thats kind of silly. As long as the movies are still in working order they should be able to be rented. I wonder why they chose to make that decision. DVDs take up a lot less room on the shelves I can say that much. I think our library only charges for business days so thats probably the same as why your library does the $5 a week late charge.
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
13 Dec 10
I still watch most of my videos on VHS sadly maybe I am just behind the days.
@shaggin (73865)
• United States
14 Dec 10
luvandpower I do not think that is sad at all! Most of the movies that my kids and I have are on vhs tapes. I think they last much longer then dvds. Vhs tapes last for years and the dvds we have get scratched pretty easily with little ones around. As long as the vhs works good theres nothing wrong with watching it. Now that dvds are the way to go you can get vhs tapes at flea markets in great condition for next to nothing.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
13 Dec 10
Hi shaggin, it's quite long ago that I used to borrow tv series videos from a library. It's free to borrow books as well as videos for member only. For the sake of chasing my favorite tv series without paying expenses to rent from the video shop, I prefer to pay a little amount of monthly subscription to join as member. All members had the right to borrow video and books from it. The library was under the management of a Chines Buddha Society nearby my place.
The maximum number of videos borrowed each time was five. Once we returned the whole thing we could get another five or less than than. 
I was a huge fan of chinese historical stories and I usually visited the library thrice a week. If I had more time to watch them I think I would pay a visit to it more frequently 
I always returned the video earlier that due date. Therefore I hadn't been charged for late return and no idea how much it's charged actually. That time CD and VCD were not popular yet. After having laptop I prefer to watch movies and tv series online and no longer to visit the library anymore.
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I was a huge fan of chinese historical stories and I usually visited the library thrice a week. If I had more time to watch them I think I would pay a visit to it more frequently I always returned the video earlier that due date. Therefore I hadn't been charged for late return and no idea how much it's charged actually. That time CD and VCD were not popular yet. After having laptop I prefer to watch movies and tv series online and no longer to visit the library anymore.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
14 Dec 10
Yeah, we should express our gratitude to the concerned authorities or enthusiastic people who provide libraries for us to enjoy all the facilities available there. my brother in law likes reading newspapers from different publishers in one of the library near to his house every afternoon after work. He borrows children books as well for his son and daughter.
I'm glad to know that you take your daughter and son to the library during their school holiday. Reading a lot is the best way to learn latest info and broaden knowledge as well as to enhance and improve their language and writing skill 
Library is the right place for our young generation to get into the good habit of reading. my son would engross in his legend stories if a thick story book is given to him.
my brother in law likes reading newspapers from different publishers in one of the library near to his house every afternoon after work. He borrows children books as well for his son and daughter.
I'm glad to know that you take your daughter and son to the library during their school holiday. Reading a lot is the best way to learn latest info and broaden knowledge as well as to enhance and improve their language and writing skill Library is the right place for our young generation to get into the good habit of reading. my son would engross in his legend stories if a thick story book is given to him.1 person likes this
@shaggin (73865)
• United States
13 Dec 10
I am so thankful that libraries are around. To me they are so amazing. We can either go to a bookstore and buy books constantly or we can go for free to the library and borrow them. Its just amazing. I dont go to the library that often. I used to take my daughter and son once a week during the summer though. Since my daughter is in school we dont have as much time.
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@gunagohan (3413)
• India
13 Dec 10
Library package in my place is some how different, we just have to pay some tariff at the beginning of the year and we can take any movies at any time without any rent..
The number of movies and books u can take at a time depends upon the account u have registered in.
If u have registered for a D1 account, u could take 3 DVD's at a time and 4 books at a time and 18 days are given for the return .
U can extend the days for return through online and keep the books and DVD's for another 7 days.
Yes, they do ask some late charges if it extends the last day of return.
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@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
11 Dec 10
Our library still rents for free.
They have some dvds and more vhs.
They don't have a huge selection.
We don't rent movies from the library....we have satellite tv, so there is something to watch.
@shaggin (73865)
• United States
12 Dec 10
Thats awesome that you have satellite tv. When I moved out with my ex to his fathers house they had satellite tv. I loved it. For years we had cable after we moved into our own home but then it just cost to much money that we could use for necessities instead of luxuries like television so we havent had it since. My kids have lots of movies they watch but I rarely watch movies at all. Its been probably 5 months since I watched a movie.
@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
13 Dec 10
Our community library does have movies for rent. But they don't charge us anything to borrow still.
The only problem is, most movies that they have are really old. So, we don't borrow that often.
For a $1 rental fee, I could just go to my video rental store and rent relatively new children's movies for the same price.
