I’ll admit it. I choose my books by their covers—or in particular, the green and blue badges that denote Peak Picks at my local Seattle Public Library branch. I’m not the only one, either. Since the program’s inauguration in 2017, 800 titles, ranging from en vogue novels to big-name memoirs to cookbooks, have been designated Peak Picks. They’ve been checked out over 1,000,000 times.
The concept is simple: Certain new releases get a sticker with the Peak Picks logo, marking them as copies that cannot be placed on hold or renewed. They carry an abbreviated loan period of two weeks, rather than the typical three. Each month, about a
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