Stealing Books

[Anonymous No.12477329]

I must confess I've stolen books. I've told my friend about it and he tells me it's pathetic.
I pull out my Bolaño card and the fact that books, at least here, are crazy expensive.
What's your opinion, dear /lit/izen?

[Anonymous No.12477352]

I work as a barista in a busy college town and sometimes when the students are in the bathroom I'll steal their labtops/textbooks out of their bags and sell them on ebay

[Anonymous No.12477361]

Niggers.

[Anonymous No.12477407]

I do the same thing except online, feels much, much more morally acceptable

[Anonymous No.12477417]

>>12477407
filesharing is not theft

[Anonymous No.12477421]

Stealing books is not a crime in my book (lol). Just steal from big bookstores, not from small bookshops.

[Anonymous No.12477449]

My local library set a ton of books aside to be discarded and let anyone take them. I didn't find out till a week later, but when I got there I ended up getting 30+ books, mostly hardcovers, in excellent condition. Most of the books I got were given to the library in the 90s, and most of the books were never checked out. In that case I think thievery would be better than letting them gather dust for decades.

[Anonymous No.12477580]

>>12477329
Stealing books from a library is really the lowest. Stealing from a bookstore is somewhat different...which begs the question: WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET A FUCKING LIBRARY CARD, MOTHERFUCKER?

[Anonymous No.12477592]

>>12477352
You must try to be a better person; you lead a dirty life.

[Anonymous No.12477626]

>>12477580
As >>12477421 says, I've just stolen from big bookstore chains, not small bookshops nor libraries. I just chose that pic after googling "stealing books".
The stolen books are books that the libraries that I'm part don't have or books that I know I will write shit on.

[Anonymous No.12477630]

As long as you steal from Barnes and Noble, or similar chains, it's cool

[Anonymous No.12477638]

>>12477352

[Anonymous No.12477651]

>>12477580
Stealing books from libraries is a unique tourist thing. It's actually quite common for bibliophiles to steal books from famous major city libraries as a memento.

[Anonymous No.12477653]

>>12477592
ςογ βογ

[Anonymous No.12477676]

I stole every pop science book and most of the comics from my high school in my junior year because I hated the place
>2007 was 32 years ago

[Anonymous No.12477682]

>>12477651
>It's actually quite common for bibliophiles to steal books from famous major city libraries as a memento.
A true bibliophile would never even think of doing that out of proper moral substance and a fear of the ghost of Andrew Carnegie.
What you are describing sounds like degenerate American Millennial behaviour.

[Anonymous No.12477698]

>>12477352
And the best part is, you're happier to sell their stuff and have the money than they are sad to have lost the laptop/books - so the overall happiness in the world has increased!

[Anonymous No.12477700]

I stole a few books from my high school I wanted to keep; plus from my English teacher because she thought I returned it when I didn't.

[Anonymous No.12477720]

>>12477682
Actually it's more of a Stirner Zoomer crime of passion

[Anonymous No.12477754]

Even when I was ten I realized stealing from Barnes and Noble was A-OK. lmao at all these people spooked on crime. It's how I got my sick (coffee table)animal encyclopedia. Bad news is I was a retarded 10 year old and physically removed the barcode, thus ruining the books back cover, because I was noiding about it setting of the theft detection system. I have a few books from my highschool's library too.

[Anonymous No.12477905]

>>12477329
I stole books from my Elementary school. My friend taught me how, distract them while they're stamping and if it works you can just take the book

[Anonymous No.12478004]

I seduced the librarian of a fancy college library where I live, and asked her to help me smuggle out a few books. Imagine her surprise when I showed up with a box of about twenty somewhat rare editions.
Needless to say we made love on the stack of them, and I ended up ruining a first edition copy of Tristes Tropiques with the juices of my passion.
Currently conspiring to shit twice in the same place, as saying goes, and get both editions of the Decline of the West, as well as a very nice Italian museum piece on human anatomy, and perhaps a couple books of Niesztche's as well, I feel as though it would be doing an honour to his spirit.

[Anonymous No.12478186]

>>12478004
You're a bad person but at least your life isn't boring, which would be a worse crime obviously.

[Anonymous No.12478206]

im in too fucking deep to return the books that i bought from my local library.... help me anons what do

[Anonymous No.12478217]

>>12478004
BASED AS FUCK

[Anonymous No.12478393]

With one of these babies, you can cut the magnet strips out of books like nobodies business

[Anonymous No.12478395]

>>12477352
Does your name happen to be DeAndre? Or something similar?

[Anonymous No.12478408]

>>12477329
kek, ive pull a mild ruse of my own in a barns and noble. found a book i wanted and read it over the course of a few days always hiding it down the back of a shelf on the wrong side of the store so it wouldnt be bought.

[Anonymous No.12478413]

What of the commandments? Have we forgotten God’s word?

[Anonymous No.12478414]

>>12477329
Stop right there criminal scum

[Anonymous No.12478417]

>>12478413
Why would you steal a bible? You can get it for free

[Anonymous No.12478432]

>>12477580
a library is built, stocked and maintained by taxpayers. its existing harms writers and publishers making it so their works need only be bought once per town rather than once per reader. every library should be auctioned off and replaced with an initiative to make public domain books available online, which, by the way, already exists in several form provided by NGOs.