>university library foyer is being remodeled
>constructors took down the magnetic security gates at the front
>I visit everyday to steal rare books, mainly academic
Just stole the Complete Works of John Webster
>university library foyer is being remodeled. >constructors took down the magnetic security gates at the front
I used to work at a bigass library. I still have my security badge so I can just go through the doors that don't have the alarm gates.
absolutely devious
You little rascal!
Now stick a booger on one page of each of them and then sell them to fencers using a fake name and a disguise.
Why do people seem to think theft is okay nowadays?
Congratulations, you just stole a book you'll probably never read, for no good reason, from an academic institution that exists to benefit others.
Op is just playing his part
>academic institution that exists to benefit others
Top kek. Academic institutions exist to make money, even public ones
Most Uni students rarely read any of the books in their library. Over the course of 4 years, I purloined — in Minecraft—over 150 books from the library. Before I did, I checked the last time someone checked out the book via my school’s database that showed every instance the book was checked out since it became available at the university. Last time all the books were checked out was in the 70s-80s. Since then it was sitting on the shelf collecting the dust until the wagie came around weekly removing the dust
I used hundreds of books in the school library for my research without checking them out.
Not my problem. Check them out like normal people so others know that they’re being referenced and that people are interested in them.
Do you know how many people go to the library at uni and research while there? Maybe you didn’t actually go to uni…
I have a bachelors, masters, and a doctorate, you insecure dullard.
This. Most of those are essentialreferance books, but no one is going to lend them out just to check a quote. You go there, look it up/ make a copy and leave. Yet another sign that those which steal library or uni books to look intelectual neither were proper students nor actually read.
>doctorate
>has time but no money to waste it on stealing books
Yeah, I'll X that.
>intelectual
?
I don't know how it works in your area, but here they keep track of a book loan only if you, well, you actually borrow it. If you just read it at the library nobody will take note of that.
My buddy SWIMs uncle accidentally stole a pristine first edition of Einstein's essay on general relativity. Its worth hundreds by now. Told library staff he gave it back but found it a decade after in his shelf.
And he doesn't even read.
I have never seen a university student pick a book off the shelf from the library and read it. The library only gets used as a study place for tests or group projects.
Absolutely devillish
I'm sure even the people replying basado basado are aware that you're probably an butthole irl, if somebody I knew stole from a library to sell them without reading them I'd tell them they're a c**t
I saw a movie a few years ago about a true story where a group of 4 college kids conducted a heist on their school library. They dressed up in ridiculous makeup to pose as a group of elderly intellectuals, went into the rare book room, tased a librarian, and stole several volumes of John Audubon original folios. Their plan was to then drive to NYC to get them appraised before they appeared on a list of stolen art, then go to Amsterdam and sell them to a fence one guy heard about from his drug dealer. They stole the art, but had to leave some books in a stairwell because they couldn't fit through the door. It turned out they had stolen single volumes of several different sets rather than any one set, which would have greatly reduced what a collector would pay. Then the appraiser was out that day, so they couldn't get it appraised, and one of the thieves just kept the books in his room until the police eventually came and arrested them all. They each got around a decade in jail for the assault and robbery.
How did the police know?
Here's an article about it
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/15/inside-the-2004-6-million-transy-book-heist-and-how-they-got-caught.html
I stole a couple of books from my college library too. Returned the ones I didn't need later
What's the rarest book you've stolen?
A big ass book about Henry darger. Pretty boring tbh.
Like just an analysis of his work, no illustrations? Waste of theft imo
It's that one really expensive book on him or at least it was when I stole it. It's just a bio excerpts from the Vivian girls and a bunch of his artwork.
>be op
>steal the Complete works of John Webster
>feel guilty
>bury the works of Webster under a rock without reading them
>get paranoid
>one of remodelers gets accused then falsely confesses
>feel worse
>go to campus security office to confess
>faint like a lil b***h
>don't confess
>start simping over a tinder match
>she's a prostitute but very religious
>tell her about Webster
>she cries
>feel worse
>head of campus security calls you in
>fricks with you
>he knows, but doesn't accuse you
>feel worse
>start literally wasting away from guilt
>actually confess
Enjoy Siberia and redemption brother
Only human can feel guilt. OP is obviously not a human and needs devices to keep him straight
You should turn this into a novel. Call it Felony and Penalty.
lmao
this shit funny to me because I stole a unique book that was filled with an artist's sketches back a few years ago, from a gallery (posted about it on /ic/ even), it was worth possibly a few thousand $s, but I felt so awkward and guilty I had to return it the next day, it felt much like C&P - every bit of my mind was screaming this isn't how things should be going on
stealing actual rare/unique shit is just not worth it, among other things it feels like you're fricking over yourself in a potential similar situation (wanting to check out the same book)
many languages spell it that way so you should frick off (unless the anon's native lang is English, which I doubt)
>it feels like you're fricking over yourself in a potential similar situation (wanting to check out the same book)
>every bit of my mind was screaming this isn't how things should be going on
Congrats anon, you might have a tiny bit of a soul (you should have had these thoughts to prevent you stealing it in the first place);
OP I'm going to internet sleuth until I find out what library you're stealing from and then I'm going to report you
Why would you steal a book.
>still have university library card despite dropping out two years ago
>literally just tear off the page with the RFID sticker or whatever it's called
>managed to steal the entire western canon plus countless other works
>rare books
>mainly academic
don't they all have a stamp on them with the university logo, meaning that if you try to sell them you have a good chance of being caught?