Nah, libraries are theft. When you borrow a book from a library and you read it, then you have stolen a book from the publisher. Then you give it back and the next person comes along and reads the same book, stealing even more from the publisher.
Your meme has inspired me to renew my library card.
We should all aspire to be the Oceans 11 heist of having a library card.
If you read the book really fast, you can read it multiple times, costing the publisher even more. If you read it enough times, you could even force the publisher into bankruptcy.
Stallman would be proud lmao.
Yup. Tbh, memory in general is theft. You should not be able to have the memory of the book you read unless you keep paying for it. Really should be introducing subscription models for memories of experiences, like reading. Otherwise it’s lobotomy for you.
Please…please don’t give them ideas.
Give them any idea and then stop the shitty ones.
I can remember it for you wholesale
Brings to mind this bit from Tom Scott
Waow based
You wouldn’t download a
carbookWhen you’re a die-hard capitalist:
Somebody just got promoted at the ACS. ;p
First time I’ve ever seen anyone speaking out for publishers and against lending and borrowing. You’re even ignoring how authors only get less than 10% of sales while publishers get 90% or so.
I believe they are speaking in jest, hence the comical premise and imagery which is a reversal of a common meme used to criticize capitalism.
Maybe. There’s no real way to know anymore with all the batshit crazy opinions people genuinely hold.
I definitely get this, but sometimes I decide it must be meant as a joke because it’s easier to respect them as a person if it is
Sure, but on a platform with this many leftists, it wouldn’t be upvoted if the message communicated wasn’t this. They also almost certainly would not expect it to be a successful comment if this wasn’t their intention as well.
Ok. Sometimes I don’t bother trying to tell apart a joke from a real concern. I mean, who knows what a struggling publisher would say. No worries.
Libraries should host the peoples websites/videos/games/art online for free. To be against this is to be against the original purpose of Libraries.
The Internet Archive isn’t a website host, but it certainly does all those other things.
That’s a brilliant idea, I might actually propose it to my local library as a prospective volunteer for the service.
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I’m afraid AI written books are being published and put into library shelves too.
Just stick with books from 2010 and earlier and you’ll be fine.
I don’t understand - you’ve never read books?
I guess you have to rely on books written pre-2021, as nothing stops authors (or publishers directly) to let AI generate text for their Books, and even train them to write based on sell counts…
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Unless the library is tracking book reader stats or you actually check out the book, maybe remember how the classification system works like they were supposed to teach you in school?
Half the time I’m literally standing in front of the shelf perusing the book, it would be dumb to throw it in the book return unless I don’t know or can’t find the exact position where it came from.
If you know how to properly reshelve the books on your own, you know who you are. Just do it. No one will care nor will anyone bother you if you aren’t causing a problem. For everyone else, there is the dump cart.
I see these messages more as being aimed at those who don’t even know there is a system, those who do but don’t care to learn it, or some other combo of known or unknown unknowns. When books are returned improperly, it creates a moment of unnecessary work at best. At worst, it causes things to become harder for patrons and staff to find, improperly recorded, or “lost” in the system, and those types of mistakes have a tendency to add up/compound with a large enough collection.
It takes way longer to unfuck that kind of mess than to have it be put back correctly in the first place, so let the pros handle it if you’re not 100% sure – there’s absolutely no shame in that.
For those that want to learn, its the Dewey decimal system.
Idk. I think it’s just easier to rely on a specific someone whose job it is to put shit in the proper place than to hope every random person who takes a book off the shelf can put it back in the proper place. Like, I get what you’re saying. It isn’t a big ask to have people return a book after looking at it. But it’s so easy for them to put it in the wrong spot. And once it’s on the shelf, it’s much harder to notice that it’s out of place. It seems counter intuitive, but it’s more efficient to simply leave the book out after looking at it
How can it be difficult to put something back where you found it anyway?
If you’re doing something like gathering research materials, a lot of times people will grab a bunch of stuff of the shelves at once then take it all back to a table somewhere to peruse. In that scenario it’s definitely likely you’ll forget where something went, or mix things up.
You’re depriving some poor librarian the best part of their day.
Wait, are people checking out books, bringing them home and then… Just putting them on the shelves again???
Not quite. Imagine you’re writing a research paper at the library. You take some books off the shelf to study from while you’re there. Then, before you leave, don’t reshelve the books. It’s because the library tracks metrics of which books are being used and if you put it back yourself it doesn’t get counted.
For an academic Library, absolutely. But I worked at the local library here, and we didn’t track anything unless you checked out the book.
But would you trust everyone who takes a book off the shelf to put it back exactly where they found it?
We had all books stickered on the spine though, with the shelve/genre (for novels) or number (for educational books) and the first three letters of the author’s name. So it wasn’t overly hard and mostly worked out. People can mostly manage to match the picture and then alphabetise “DUM”, so the Three Musketeers would generally find it’s way back alright.
We still had walks to check though, and that’s probably where my lifeling obsession with alphabetising and straightening shelves comes from. I do it even when i’m in a random bookstore, just alinging the spines with the edge of the shelve after putting a book back.
In my nearby library, you can even take music and movies out. Old as shit music and movies on CDs and DVDs, but music and movies nevertheless.
Y’know I’ve known this but I just now thought that I should do so and rip them shits digitally.
The good old rent CD, rip it, give it back piracy 😁 were fun times
more libraries do that than libraries that don’t from what I’ve seen.
I need more library memes
This is wholesome.
*in the US
I have been to libraries in the US and in Europe and in Europe you are supposed to return the book exactly where you got it from if you dont decide to check it out. In the US though I was yelled at for doing that.
Hmmm, how do I work in shitting on the U.S. in this post about libraries? I know! I’ll conflate all 44 European countries into one amorphous blob. Lol, owned.
I’d ask you your country of origin but you’d never tell me if it’s Russia or China.
Switzerland, but I see how I should have specified that in my first comment.
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i can’t, it makes me feel so guilty whenever I make someone else when😭😭
