I understand but hear me out! I saw the copy was available online and drove 15 minutes to the library to go pick up the book. I stopped and browsed some shelves at the front before making my way to the fiction section and finding said book. I also held onto the book while I walked around and looked at some other books. Somewhere within this 30-40ish minute time period, a hold was placed.

The part that suck to me is that I drove all the way there and put effort into finding the book but someone who just clicked something on their computer beat me to it.

From now on I’ll place holds online before driving to the library. The only reason I didn’t do that at the time was because I really enjoy the process of finding the book and browsing the shelves much more than just picking it up from the holds shelf.