What kind of dipshit writes in a library book?

[ccharles000]

I got The Handmaid's Tale today and some fuck thought it was ok to write in it and fill in all the 0s. Library books are for all of us. Bunch of assholes in this world.



:mad: :rant:

[mcctatas]

1. OK, I admit I have a bad habit of correcting typos and bad grammar

but I do it in pencil!

[vadawg]

2. i left a sardine in a library book once, got a call asking me if i wanted it back from the librarian

my excuse is i was totally rat arsed when eating sardines on toast and reading the book. fish happens

[skooooo]

19. that's classy

:eyes:

[Hekate]

3. So what did you think of The Handmaid's Tale? nt

[ccharles000]

4. It is good so far

I am only on page 80

[T_i_B]

5. I know what you mean

If you want to rant about a book, there are better ways of doing it then ruining that book for everyone who uses it after you.

[JanMichael]

6. it's called marginalia, and in some countries those annotations

make the book more valuable. Interesting to read some of the research on it.

[Xipe Totec]

22. I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain

:hide:

[Ikonoklast]

25. One of the most infuriating comments ever written.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Fermat, what a jerk!

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

27. I often wondered if he really knew the proof

or just did that to drive mathematicians crazy for close to four centuries.

Either way, pretty good goof on his part.

[Xipe Totec]

28. Four centuries hence, someone will figure out Fermat's proof,

and humanity will go DOH!

For now, at least there is a proof, clumsy and long, but a proof nonetheless...

:hi:

[Ikonoklast]

29. 42. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

31. Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

32. Well, you have to ask the proper question, don't you?

:P

[Genevieve]

23. It may add or detract from the value. It depends on who wrote the marginalia and which book.

Marginalia left by a famous person, such as the President when young, for instance, in a book written by a former president will add value.
A child's notes in a Harry Potter book won't.

[JanMichael]

24. in this country; in Europe marginalia is viewed differently

and very often makes the books more valuable.

[ogneopasno]

7. I correct typos I find. I do it very neatly.

[alphafemale]

8. ALL the "O's"

I'm trying to imagine the time that would take.

whoa

[hobbit709]

12. That's someone excessively AR and OC.

[gmoney]

9. I got the "Post Secret" books from the library...

And someone had very neatly gone through with post-it notes, trimmed out to size, and covered all the swear words and nudity in the photos. Must have taken a while!

[gmoney]

10. And how hard is it to put a DVD in the player without beating the hell out of it?

I'm trying to watch Desperate Housewives season two from Library DVDs, and several episodes have been nearly unplayable for all the massive scrapes and scratches on the discs.

Even the error-correcting of a blu-ray player is no match for this abuse.

[bikebloke]

11. Comments especially irk me.

I'm reading the book and can think for myself. And most of the time they're wrong when trying to correct statements in the book. Maybe they ought to do a little research before grabbing a pencil.

[NV Whino]

13. A dipshit that corrects grammar and spelling

Guilty as charged.

Now if I could only figure a way to correct that misspelling in the dialog window that pops up in PhotoShop.

[Chan790]

14. What mispelling?

I've never noticed it. You should send it in to Adobe's customer service though, on the off-chance that you're the first person to notice it you might get a free copy of the next version as a thank you; the way they've increased prices for every version since Photoshop 5.0, that might be worth a grand.

Adobe has a history of being really generous to laypeople who contribute something that vastly improves their product...it seems like a small thing except that it makes them look like inattentive idiots who don't know how to spell and it's on thousands of computer screens a day.

[NV Whino]

17. Thanks, I'll check it out.

By the way, you misspelled "mispelling." Hint: 2 esses.

[mitchum]

15. I like to check out true crime accounts from the library...

underline certain gruesome passages, and add marginalia such as "Good idea!" or "Too messy" or "A good way to get caught"

I assume it may "entertain" the next reader

[mcctatas]

16. OMFG!

:rofl:

[sammythecat]

18. I know you're young

and I don't want to sound like I'm assuming you're naive, but I'll say this anyway: Be prepared for many, many, many more attacks of assholery like this in the years to come. It seems to be a constant variable in the equation of life. It's one of those elements formed in the first nanoseconds after the Big Bang. :-(

[skooooo]

20. Same young men who piss in the trash cans...

..and leave used condoms in the stacks in probably every college library in the country.

GROW UP ASSHOLES!

[Richardo]

21. "Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. ..."

Y'know that little stamp, the one that says "New York Public Library"?

Well that may not mean

anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot.

Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before:

Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're

thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library

books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without

libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change

the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right

now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees

and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?

Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue

fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that

kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe

that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and

your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time

is over. Y'got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!"

[sniffa]

30. I value vandalism in Registry of Deeds books

It's usually a reference to another Bk/Pg that is not referenced in the deed but is valuable to have.

[applegrove]

33. And then there was that monk dipshit who wrote about Robin Hood in some book. ... Idiot!!!! LOL!

[Mike 03]

34. Lol, someone with OCD maybe?

I mark in my books, constantly, but would never mark in a library book.

[oedura]

35. Welcome to the human race. (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

36. at least all the pages were in it

years ago, when my college library was still ghetto and ratty (maybe still is)...students too broke to afford 85 cents for copies would think NOTHING of tearing pages out to take home...out of encyclopedias, expensive books, rare books, new books, even the books in our 'protected' section of the library...of course, a lot of professors gave freshmen the same general assignments, so if you were looking up say, 19th century African history, there was a 50-50 chance something would be missing from the books you found...