Nah, libraries are theft. When you borrow a book from a library and you read it, then you have stolen a book from the publisher. Then you give it back and the next person comes along and reads the same book, stealing even more from the publisher.
If you read the book really fast, you can read it multiple times, costing the publisher even more. If you read it enough times, you could even force the publisher into bankruptcy.
Your meme has inspired me to renew my library card.
We should all aspire to be the Oceans 11 heist of having a library card.
Yup. Tbh, memory in general is theft. You should not be able to have the memory of the book you read unless you keep paying for it. Really should be introducing subscription models for memories of experiences, like reading. Otherwise it’s lobotomy for you.
Best option is to just buy the book and not read it! That’s the best option for the publishers.
The librarian at my grad school had a book cart in her house and would not let her husband put a book anywhere but on that cart once he was finished with it. Power move.
Libraries are THE BEST and the last citadel of culture left, I consider librarians Holy Crusaders of Knowledge, and they are the last bastion protecting humanity from intellectual darkness, and the forces that assail the dispersion of truth.
DEUS VULT, librarians! STRENGTH AND HONOR!
Libraries should host the peoples websites/videos/games/art online for free. To be against this is to be against the original purpose of Libraries.
Why’s that? Is it just in case you put it in the wrong spot?
Primarily, yes. But also most libraries run a book through the check-in system when they pick it up. This marks in the system when and where the last time a book was touched was, which can be useful if it were to go missing. But mostly it’s so it doesn’t go in the wrong spot.
Who is running check on on the return cart? Who has time for that?
These a check in box in the back room. If it isn’t in there, and it has a label then It’s assumed to be part of the collection.
Was a literal librarian for 6 years. Pay was shite so I left.
Um, idk we do. I work in a busy urban library and we (circ and librarians) check in everything we pick up. We do use RFID tags so that makes it pretty easy.
Do they track the number of times a specific title was checked out?
I’m sure that info is pretty valuable to track reading trends.
*in the US
I have been to libraries in the US and in Europe and in Europe you are supposed to return the book exactly where you got it from if you dont decide to check it out. In the US though I was yelled at for doing that.
I don’t know where you’ve been but most libraries I’ve seen in Germany have little carts where you put the book you don’t want to check out. Our university library even had signs asking to please put books on the carts and not reshelve them yourself.
Hmmm, how do I work in shitting on the U.S. in this post about libraries? I know! I’ll conflate all 44 European countries into one amorphous blob. Lol, owned.
I’d ask you your country of origin but you’d never tell me if it’s Russia or China.
Switzerland, but I see how I should have specified that in my first comment.
Y’all must realize “Europe” isn’t one single sort of entity that defines all rules…
In Romania you are required to hand it to a worker to have it checked in and catalogued, you can’t just put it back because they need to know if you went over your holding period or not. You’re not allowed to keep it forever
I think they’re talking about books you’ve read in the library and decided not to check out, not books you’ve already checked out, taken home and are now brining back.
Wait, are people checking out books, bringing them home and then… Just putting them on the shelves again???
Not quite. Imagine you’re writing a research paper at the library. You take some books off the shelf to study from while you’re there. Then, before you leave, don’t reshelve the books. It’s because the library tracks metrics of which books are being used and if you put it back yourself it doesn’t get counted.
