To want to throw this book at whoever last checked it out?

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BananaPudding · 04/10/2007 04:35

Just checked a book out of the library today and snuggled down in bed to read. Someone has gone through the book and circled any iffy grammar/word choices and written in what they thought should be. AND page 39/40 is torn out.

SO annoyed by this as instead of a relaxing read I am all ticked off that the book is so written over that I am driven to distraction reading it.

Grrrrrr at people who write in library books!

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BananaPudding · 04/10/2007 04:37

And you lot had better not correct my grammar!

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ZacharyQuack · 04/10/2007 05:21

I had that on a library book recently, soooooo infuriating! It was a new book by a relatively unknown author, so I reported it to the library staff when I returned it, in the faint hope that only one other person had ever borrowed it so they could sent the library police around to their house!

The staff at the returns desk were fairly bemused when I turned up with a book full of post-it notes.

Why do people do this? Do they think word is going to get back to the author or the publisher so that they would learn their lesson?

bumpybecky · 04/10/2007 11:30

YANBU - that would make me really cross too!

I borrowed a library book once that had been printed or bound wrongly. There was a section in the middle of over 100 pages that were repeated from the first part of the book, so 100 pages of the middle were missing.

What was weird was I was about the 8th person to borrow the book and no one else had said anything to the librarians!

BandofMutantMonsters · 04/10/2007 11:34

that would really annoy me too.
Bumpybecky, how odd that noone else mentioned it.

weirdbird · 04/10/2007 12:33

bumpybecky - I would hazard a guess that no one else had made it to the middle of the book to realise!

It doesnt happen to me often but some books I just can't get into...

admylin · 04/10/2007 12:38

We always report if anything is wrong with a library book and they get put on a different pile. The dc had a cassette once and someone had recorded their voices in the middle of it and obviously just handed it back in. It was in portugese too (the voices not the cassette)

MyTwopenceworth · 04/10/2007 16:50

Someone was so pedantic that they felt compelled to correct a library book?

OK.

Fess up.

Which mner was it?

SharpMolarBear · 04/10/2007 16:59

not me - it's something I would do, but it breaks the cardinal rule of not writing in books (unless they're intended to be written in!)

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