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AIBU?

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...to think that people who write in library books should be shot?

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TheArmadillo · 12/04/2007 13:44

Every time I get books out the uni library someone has always underlined stuff or, even worse, written comments in the margin. Some of them even do it in biro

AIBU to think all these people should have painful punishments inflicted upon them

I don't care about their opinions. I don't want to see what they thought was interesting/useful about the book. I don't want to be distracted by the lines they draw that obscure the stuff I actually want to read.

SO AIBU (apparently my friends at uni think I'm a little overzealous about this).

But argh

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RustyBear · 12/04/2007 23:14

My SIL was an archivist - and yes, she has a bad back!

The OAP incident was back in my life BC - must be nearly 25 years ago now - so the OAP is probably no longer with us....

Swizzler · 12/04/2007 22:50

No jobs?? OK, fewer jobs than librarians, but far fewer qualified archivists. And you get to work with original manuscripts (while telling everyone else to keep orf ). No Access Without Reading and Agreeing to The Rules, anyway.

And my back is fine

chocolattegirl · 12/04/2007 22:44

GgE what did he do with it? Did he eat it?

I once used a (full) book of 1st-class stamps as a bookmark but luckily I always shake the books before I hand them over .

gemmiegoatEGGS · 12/04/2007 22:31

my dad once found a rasher of bacon in a library book...

MissTFied · 12/04/2007 22:30

If they want others to see their thoughts they should do the hard work themselves and write a flippin' book!

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TheArmadillo · 12/04/2007 22:26

I've heard about the archives. Places in which you are only allowed to use a pencil. They sound like wondrous places.

Never have the time to visit though so use Early English BOoks Online instead (as can do it at home).

Always wanted to be an archivist, but got put off by one who came to see us about careers and said there was so few jobs we shouldn't bother, plus we'd all get bad backs.

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agnesnitt · 12/04/2007 22:22

Rustybear, your area sucks. That old eejit should be rounded up and taken to small claims. Old or not, they're being a twat

Agnes

(determined to piss the entire world off this week)

Marina · 12/04/2007 21:34

Absolutely not. I've seen the way You Lot weed...

Swizzler · 12/04/2007 20:12

and no-one can borrow anything

convincing you t change professions yet?

RustyBear · 12/04/2007 20:10

Thing is agnes, that actually was the headline in the local paper when the borough librarian sent a letter to a pensioner about some valuable books which had been got for him by inter-library loan and which he refused to return.

Swizzler · 12/04/2007 20:03

Have to add (with archivist hat on) that Post-it notes damage the paper

You think librarians are anal? We frisk people for biros before they even get near the papers. And make them wear funny gloves

danae · 12/04/2007 19:58

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agnesnitt · 12/04/2007 19:48

Rustybear...

I wouldn't make an issue of it, it would just be another charge to be levied. Library books are not personal property, if an old dear of sixty eight can't understand that then they need to have their card confiscated and learn to save up for books they can do with as they please.

Yes, today I am evil

Agnes

(former school librarian )

FioFio · 12/04/2007 19:06

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Marina · 12/04/2007 19:03

I have no problem with that in principle. Custy is on a roll at the mo. She is a goddess.

FioFio · 12/04/2007 19:03

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lionheart · 12/04/2007 19:03

*to remove

FioFio · 12/04/2007 19:02

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lionheart · 12/04/2007 19:02

What about those who take a Stanley knife to the art books and to remove the illustrations?

Marina · 12/04/2007 19:01

I used to. It has gone what dd refers to as saggy and boggy...pretty much since Xmas. What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?

FioFio · 12/04/2007 19:00

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Marina · 12/04/2007 18:56

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Marina · 12/04/2007 18:54

If the desecration was on an aesthetic par with Joe Orton's I'm not sure any of us would mind tbh, we enjoy good humour and good art as much as anyone else
My professional hero is Philip Larkin, who came across some graffiti "Fuck off Philip Larkin" in a bookstack in the Brynmor Jones Library in Hull. So he immediately added, "No, YOU fuck off. [Signed] P. Larkin".
Nothing beats finding a pube in a library book, trust me.

2shoes · 12/04/2007 18:06

no your not......should never write in abook thats not yours

Blu · 12/04/2007 17:44

Scummy - I was just thinking about Joe Orton!

People who stick subversive pictures and re-writes in library books should get an Arts Council grant!