Have you ever stolen a book, IQfy?
Guilty as charged!
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Have you ever stolen a book?
Have you ever stolen a book, IQfy?
Guilty as charged!
Nothing Ever Happens Shirt $21.68 |
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Nothing Ever Happens Shirt $21.68 |
I pirate books all the time. I'm nearing the end of my AAS and I want to say I only rented like 2 books through Amazon (which I subsequently stripped free of DRM and saved a PDF to my hard drive) and bought a hard copy of 1. Everything else I've gotten from libgen.
Piracy isn't theft
Spoken like a true consumer.
I stole a magazine with a collection of Ivan Illich essays (and some other stuff but this one was most intriguing, since it was about his critique of modern medicine, and at the time I stole it corona was still a big topic). It was left sitting on a shelf of some "cultural institution" and I very much do believe nobody would read it ever again if left there.
I considered stealing one somewhat rare book, but it was the sort of a book (collected poems) and by an author (pretty important by local standards) that would probably be useful to people with decent taste. So I was glad when a used copy appeared in a store and I went and bought it.
Stealing books is morally dubious. But pirating overpriced academic editions and magazines is a moral duty.
Recently I came across a tiny 130-page softcover, basic b***h sociologuistic insights written by a total nobody, that was officially selling for over 70€. Just an illustration of what israelitery we're dealing with.
Wat? Most of the writers people read here are long dead. Why give money to the leeches of great offspring that probably don't work for living and israelite publishers.
Just stop being a poorgay.
I stole Solaris from this old dude I did a Workstay with. He was a tall butthole who wouldn't stop lecturing us. Never read it then let a friend borrow it who then lost it because he's a depressed butthole.
No, I’m not a poorgay.
But your choice of words is poor
Othello (Ardent Shakespeare edition), it was just collecting dust there in my high school's library, so I took it home and read it. Now it's in the company of King Lear.
I was homeless after college and living in my car, I stole 'Wisdom of China and India' (1942) by the scholar Lin Yu Tang, from the Las Vegas public library, which I feel guilty for and regret doing to this day. Its the only book I ever stole.
Meh, I doubt Las Vegas 1
*would use that shit. Jesus christ. Don't feel bad anon.
I've been working in various bookstore for the past 8 years. About 80% of the books I own are stolen from my workplace. The other 20% is bought with my 40% employee discount.
I stuffed a copy of The Name of the Rose into my bag and just walked out of Barnes and Noble. Still haven't even read it kek. Also stole some trashy manga in high school just because I didn't want to be seen with it at the checkout counter
Kind of. I stole a few Latin books from the University library -- Seneca and some dual translation of Cicero.
Not that I'm looking to justify it but I did it after the librarian kicked me out of three conference rooms in a row, and was quite rude about it.
Funny thing was years later they rebuilt the library, mostly as a computer station, and half the books were just gone. No one was sure what happened to them but the lady that worked there and suspected they was just thrown out. Had I known that I would have stolen way more.
>kicked me out of three conference rooms in a row,
Why??
So perfectly good reasons I think it was just booked, but she was a b***h about it.
I was reading latin at the time so I just innocently put the books in the bag with everything else and went out. That was when I realized how easy it was so I just kept doing it. Again Id feel a bit shitty if the books weren't gone like a year later
I stole a book from my high school library. I found out two ways to get it out.
1. Slip right in the middle of the scanners, and they don't notice a thing.
2. Just go out the backdoor.
Option 2 was safer. Ironically, the book I stole was about organized crime.
I used to work at one of my cities largest libraries so I know how to easily staeal books from their collection. I also steal rate books from all the big college libraries in my city. Feels good man.
Also the used book stores in my city owe most of their losses to my gf.
>he just consumes pirated books
make sure to share any books you have to buy, piracy can't continue and grow without uploaders.
When I lived in Italy I was friends with an antiquarian book dealer who publicly sold common junk but had a back room full of 16th and 15th century manuscripts and maps, a lot of Venetian stuff I remember, all of extremely dubious origin. He also had old bits of papyrus and Egyptian stuff smuggled out some point during the 20th century. The problem was a lot of it was completely unsellable, and the stuff that wasn't was usually bought by shady Russian people. He had a really impressive collection of maps some of which were clearly ripped out of books, sometimes very crudely. When I left he made me a gift of a little poetry manuscript, no one important but it was almost 400 years old. When I moved the second time I left it with my folks, I was too nervous to take it overseas again.
We still talk sometimes, but the few times I mentioned the collection he presented he didn't know what I was talking about.
Fascinating. You could write a novel about that.
Possibly.
Technically i've stolen books from my dad but there's only like 3 I never put back
All the time through piracy