My library loans out books for a period of three weeks, which is usually a reasonable amount of time.  Sometimes I'll have a busy schedule and be unable to finish a book in three weeks, but more often it's plenty of time.  For DVDs, the loan period is a week, which is also pretty reasonable.  Some weeks I can't stitch together two consecutive hours to sit on the couch and pay attention to something, but most times it's not a problem. 

The problem comes with video games (which I really shouldn't be complaining about because I've rented, say, $500 worth of video games at $50/game in the past nine months), which the library treats as DVDs and only loans for a week.  I've actually emailed the library about this and presented what I thought was a pretty good argument:  It typically takes about 10-15 hours to complete a video game, and since I'm not a worthless teenager who sits around in a darkened basement and plays for hours on end (I'm older and sit in a well-lit room; also I pay taxes), it usually takes me about 10-15 days to complete.  Add a couple "off" days to that total and you get about three weeks, which is the same loan period as books.  The library kindly answered back saying their relatively small video game collection isn't big enough to let people rent games for that long.  That's a legitimate argument, but I stand by my case. #entertainment