I willingly didnt return my library books after the library near me is suddenly going through unexpected renovations and its been sitting on my shelf for close to a year since i was too lazy to drive across town to another library.I was planning on returning the books when the library opens again in a couple months but at this point i'm tempted to just keep em since I've just been buying my books instead for the first time in my life instead of using the library and i'm liking my growing collection.The library books are the illiad, the odyssey, the aeneid and mythology.I wanted to have this certain set of books anyways and at this point i dont wanna pay for it.Is this wrong of me ? Who else is gonna read these old books in my crappy bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere?they probably have multiple copies anyways.
>>24945852The Iraqi saying in your picrel is a No True Scotsman fallacy. So I wouldn't worry about it, enjoy your free books fren.
WE ARE WHAT WE DO, AND WHAT WE DO MAKES THE CITY IN WHICH WE EXIST AND COEXIST.DO YOU WANT TO BE A THIEF? DO WANT TO LIVE IN A LOW TRUST COMMUNITY? IF NOT, RETURN THE BOOKS.
>>24945935>moral lessons from a favela monkeyGrim
>>24945971?
>>24945973Los subhumanos de piel morena no están en posición de dar lecciones de ética, Panchito.
>>24945987YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
>>24945852>1 million qurans
>>24945852Heh, that's funny. I also have library books that are months overdue and I was thinking of returning them sometime this week.
I've been in a similar situation once in third grade. At the end of the school year I brought back a book I had forgotten home months before. The teacher didn't remember I had it either, yet instead of being happy she'd gotten her book back she ruthlessly tore me apart in front of the class. Since that day I've never tried to be proactive again. If I'm on time it's fine but if it's late and no one reminds me it's on them.
I still have a copy of This Spake Zarathustra from a decade ago. They sent me to collections for it and it dinged my credit. I refused to pay. I refuse to return. I will not subject the people of my town to Nietzsche.
>>24945852As a librarian, keep them, no one cares. You're the only one with negative consequences from this, because when a Core Collection book is missing for more than a month or two, we buy it almost immediately. That said, you're screwing your future self by tossing away access to free books at your library. If you return them the fines are usually greatly reduced, usually to a maximum of $5 per item instead of list price + processing fee. I don't know why you would deny yourself access to library books though, if you're a reader. Even if you are retarded and prefer ebooks, those are offered for free at a majority of libraries as well with convenient sync features between devices.
>>24946619Not OP, but my city's libraries abolished late fees long ago
>>24946775There's a library system nearby that got rid of late fees and everyone comes to ours instead because:>new book comes out>buy two copies>both get checked out>both patrons take a month or two or three>get charged for the book if you don't bring it back>but charge fully waived if item is returned>people keep the books for however long it takes them to read it at whatever pace they want even if there is a wait list of 50+ peoplePeople actually pay the non-resident fee for our library system (which is not cheap) so they actually get books in a reasonable time-frame, and most of them directly blame them needing to come to us and pay yearly on their system's change to fine free. One of the librarians is pushing to turn us fine free because she's constantly whining about imaginary low income families who can't afford fees and we're being racist by blocking those families access. Our director thankfully is standing pretty firm and asks for evidence, of which she has none, but I feel like it's only a matter of time because the world is creeping endlessly towards zero individual responsibility and people like her always get their way, usually by being insidious.
>>24945935let's say there's a little holy-warrior in you, from W40K...then your post is justified.in other cases, the answer to OP's questionning is not that black/white.i am, myself, encline to think that he should get them back to the library.but, then, the remembrance of books i once hired from libraries, books that i couldn't hire twice because they have been trashed, is coming back to me.little libraries, in small town, trash books.they don't keep it.questionnable.OP?
>>24946483kek
>>24945852I've spent a lot of time in the Middle East, and I can assure you Arabs do not read. It's like middle school TikTok addiction, but with adults. They can't even drive cars without being on TikTok. One man was steering with his feet so he could use his phone.
>>24945997Filtered
>>24945852So what if he can't read, he plans to sell the stolen books to people that can read
>>24945935/threadsimple as
>>24946054I have to go return some library books
>>24945935>DO WANT TO LIVE IN A LOW TRUST COMMUNITY?Your community is minority white, that's already gone. All that's left now is gatekeeping knowledge from the brown horde by stealing library books.
>>24945852I stole like 5 Hitler books from my school library, didn't even read them but they add to the chudcore vibe of my room
>>24945852I have the very last extant copy of a book that I lost at home on break after taking it from the uni library.I have since found it, they have since held my transcripts hostage and billed me for it.They will not be getting it back. It was never digitized. The book dies with me. None of you will ever read it.
>>24947688well... i'm not sure about that though.
