How many books do you STEAL in a year?

Where do you steal them from?
I never steal books?
Even from the library. I always bring them back and pay my ginormous fines.

Except once. I forget to return a book called West Of Eden, and then I got too embarrassed. They eventually stopped asking and I gave it to a charity shop.

But no, I don't steal.

Shoplifting is stealing.

I'll take that as a confession. The Police will be knocking at your door any time now.

Do you mean the library?

I "borrow" most books I read. It's very rare that I buy novels (I'd say, I bought the HP series since book 5 for my little sister.) The rest of the novels come from the library.

Judas is going to be pissed. She doesn't like her threads being mocked.

Me? None.

Zero. I'm terrified of the Library Police.

Though I'm going to remember this when The Last Dragon comes out. When they wrassle me to the asphault out in the parking lot, I'll just say, "It's okay! The author doesn't mind."

How about, How many books have people stolen from ME? I'm still waiting for my copy of Time Traveler's Wife to come back. Grumble.

Three of my books are out on 'loan'.

I can't say I stole any, but I did snatch a bunch of lit journals from the freebie box at a book fair.

KTC said:

Judas is going to be pissed. She doesn't like her threads being mocked.

Me? None.

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Imitation is the dreariest form of flattery.

no. it's flattery is the sincerest form of imitation. You're a wonderful person, Judas.

I steal my own books back, usually either with cash, chocolate pants, or some kind of favors.

I don't steal books, but if publishers send me stuff to review for sites that I quit writing for years ago and am no longer listed on, then I'm not going to send them back. I'm also pretty bad at replacing books in exchange reading libraries, quite honestly, but they're so full of crap that one book I put in is worth five I take out

Steal books?

Nope, never have.

The Lady said:

Where do you steal them from?


Except once. I forget to return a book called West Of Eden, and then I got too embarrassed. They eventually stopped asking and I gave it to a charity shop.

But no, I don't steal.

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Did you read all the Eden books?
I have read that one I have yet to read the other 2.

I would say I have stolen 0!

You are a Bad Ducky. And it's official, when you come to town, I'm NOT inviting you over. You'll have to settle for coffee somewhere, and not the Starbucks in the corner of the bookstore, either!

No stealing from the library!

And Will, the Library Police? HAHA. I have too many other important things to do than chase after people who don't pay their fines!!

cb1281 said:

No stealing from the library!

And Will, the Library Police? HAHA. I have too many other important things to do than chase after people who don't pay their fines!!

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You might, but the Library Policeman...

I'm referring here to the Stephen King story in Four Past Midnight. Read it?

Will Lavender said:

You might, but the Library Policeman...

I'm referring here to the Stephen King story in Four Past Midnight. Read it?

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That story freaked me out.

I blame that story for my fear of dark libraries and late fees.

Steal

I don't steal anything. Ever. And books are sacred. Even if I were a thief, I would never steal a book.

I nicked a couple years ago for a dare.

They were shit. Glad I never paid for them.

The Lady said:

Where do you steal them from?
I never steal books?
Even from the library. I always bring them back and pay my ginormous fines.

Except once. I forget to return a book called West Of Eden, and then I got too embarrassed. They eventually stopped asking and I gave it to a charity shop.

But no, I don't steal.

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If you'd said East of Eden, I'd get to blame you for my accidentally buying a book by Anne Rice that was most definitely NOT about vampires.

Innocently picked it up at a Salvation Army, thinking that since the big Anne Rice was on the cover, it would be -- yanno, horror. Not . . . that.

Yikes.

muy culpable

yes, i do. but never from bookstores. pretty much never from libraries. but i do have this thing about books that are abused or neglected. you know--like books that are sitting in the dusty, moth eaten bookshelves of a ...lets say high school storage room. or the locked closet just off the auditorium. you know. where you find things like the very Voyages In English textbook that you so enjoyed in third grade. the one with "October Gave A Party" in 5 parts for choral reading? the one with all the cute illustrations of transitive and intransitive verbs?

or the old El Camino Real Spanish textbooks. they don't make them like that anymore. or say Penrod and Sam. i mean, for crissakes, who reads Tarkington anymore but me? Pepita Jimenez in Valera's own Spanish? No one is going to read that. It will just get tossed out by some ignorant janitor in the year 2010.

now I do have some finesse. i don't just waltz up and swipe the thing. first the book has to signal to me that it is in distress. that is what Pepita did just last week. i was looking for some map transfers in the storage room when she whispered "SSSt Sra. Smith! They locked me up here in 1965. I, a beautiful and wealthy young widow, have been sitting here in dust and twilight for 43 years. I, who was always your amiga querida. Por favor, ayudame." I mean that isn't so nuts, is it guys? ...guys?

Does downloading manga scantilations count? If so I might be worse than badducky. I only have one friend who really has any books worth reading and she makes sure that she gets them back.