Have you ever stolen a book? What do you think of theft?

Have you ever stolen a book? What do you think of theft?

yeah, I have a few stolen books. Snagged a copy of Art and Theory that was lying on a desk when I showed up to my art history class. At the end of class I waited around and no one took it, so I did.

I've also got a few books that were leant by friends, some of whom I haven't seen in like 6 years. Specifically a set of dungeons and dragons books and a copy of Barthes Mythologies. But I know the girl plays 5e now, so she probably doesn't care about her old 3e books and the guy who leant me Mythologies is dyslexic.

Not quite a book but this one time I stole the Declaration of Independence

Yes. Fuck companies. I'd never steal from an individual though (or a used bookstore).

Ulises y yo solíamos escurrirnos en las librerías del DF. Lo bueno de robar libros (y no cajas fuertes) es que uno puede examinar con detenimiento su contenido antes de perpetrar el delito.

i stole a ridiculous amount of books during the 4 years i worked at barnes and noble.
even though we got a 30% employee discount.
i spent all my money on heroin though, so i stole books all the time.
and yes, i am mildly ashamed of myself

Back in secondary school I stole a couple from English teachers class rooms it's not as if anybody was going to miss them

I stole the first and third Artemis Fowl books from my elementary school library when I was 10.

Otherwise, no. And I don't condone theft unless you're starving.

So you broke directly into the publisher's printing office or what?

>Have you ever stolen a book?
Only if piracy is theft.
>What do you think of theft?
It is a sublimation type that is incompatible with values of society. Unless it is necessary for survival(and in similair situations), a smart man will choose more appropriate, higher sublimation mechanisms.

When I was a kid I stole 4 or so Goosebumps books from a book fair.

These days with alarms and shit, I don't have the nerve to do it - but I would if the opportunity arose.

Not physical ones, but whenever I want a book I just buy the Kindle version on Amazon then download it to Kindle Desktop and strip the DRM using Calibre.
Then I just return it 10 minutes later and it gets refunded every time.

I often use the method to fulfil private BitTorrent tracker requests or give them to people as Birthday/Christmas gifts.

Spic.

I hadnt thought of that, are returns limited? I return audible books after i finish them to get another but theres a limit

Is this Bolaño?

If downloaded a pdf, so yes.

I kind of feel bad for stealing money from people but I'm a nihilist so it's ok.

i would be more ashamed of the heroin addiction tbf

>high school
>no one ever uses the library at my school, or any of the public libraries in my town
>i would regularly walk out with books and nothing would happen

...

I've only ever had problems with it once when I did it about 10 times in a single day and they disabled my ability to refund.
I just got in touch with support and said a family member had accidentally used my account and they immediately re-enabled it.

Definitely a good idea to space them out as much as possible though.

underated

*tips fedora*

fugg coproprations xddddd

Du hast Recht.

No sé de ningún Bolaño. Arturo Belano, para servirle.

Does Juggs magazine count?

Due to the fact that barely anybody reads anymore, books have never been cheaper. You can buy a masterpiece for the price of medium Maccas meal.

I stole quite a lot of school books. Not really for a good reason, I just wanted to see if I got away with it. Also laziness in some cases.

Rationally it is not stealing if you wouldn't have bought the books otherwise. Nobody lost any money in that equation.

gee really? ya think?

only communists would steal books

Communist hating is the only kind of rational hate. To be honest, I would rather it be 'Marxist hating death squad' but communist hating is fine too.

Nothing wrong with socialism though.

Yes, In 4th grade I checked out a gigantic fuck of a science encyclopedia that was about 1500 pages long. I never returned it, and still think the school board and feds are onto me to this day.

3e is best e. only good thing they've done since is minions. if i ever get a 3e group going again that's an easy house-rule.

wey callate

i've stolen over a hundred books from my high school library. still have them too. just basically took all the classics and old history books that were literally untouched and never checked out more than twice since they've been in that library.

I stole every one of these books from dymocks within a weeks time...aside from the like two library books I was kicked down by a neighbor

I'm welfare and I've stolen so much shit and had so much shit stolen in my life that the notions of possession and ownership is alien to me.
I think theft is rude, I dont think it's anything more than that and I think it's sometimes less.

Yeah, I stole some. I had a phase where I stole a lot of shit. Nothing too expensive though.
I think stealing is an important phase for teens to go through, but I think it's a phase that should definitely stop after a month or two.

Oh man. I'm getting anxious just thinking about it. What a fucking dumbass I was.

If you're going to go through so much trouble, just pirate them, jesus christ.

Underrated

I abruptly stopped going to a certain district's public library and forgot I had a copy of Name of the Wind checked out. Still have it sitting on a shelf several years later. Shit book, waste of shelf space. Probably going to burn it or shred it or something...

One time me and my brother found an old library book in his room. We panicked. Finally, after a long discussion we tore the tags off and got rid of them, so we'd have plausible deniability in case anybody asked. Oh how times have changed.

i don't remember buying a book in the last 3 years

good

I used to wear a trenchcoat into Barnes and Noble and line the entire inside of it with books as I stole them.

I had some thousands of dollars in books by the time I finally stopped.

Yeah. I feel more guilt about stealing from the specific people I stole from than for the act of theft itself though. I'd only steal from used bookstores because I'm a bitch about bar codes and cameras. The thing is, I'd frequent these stores, buy from them and almost always become a favorite of the owner/cashier, often getting deals and sometimes being given books for free. They almost universally say this after I've already stolen from them.

I think theft is morally wrong, especially if its something that's non-essential to live. That doesn't stop me from doing it though.

I would steel from my high school library but only because they have those little slips inside telling you when the book was last borrowed. I felt pretty confident that a poetry book last checked out in 1997 was not going to be missed and probably would've been shredded at some point anyway.

I will not admit to crimes on a public fora.

Jajajajajja

inb4 you get a letter saying to have to pay ten grand overdue fee.

>Im a nihilist so its ok
Grow the fuck up

Yeah I got illustrated Alice and withering heights when the semester ended a few years ago at the school I was transferring from. Worth it.

>I kind of feel bad for stealing money from people but I'm a nihilist so it's ok.

i found a library book in a cellar - my grandpa checked it out at least 15 yrs prior. i took it to the library and they thanked me

they still hate me tho b/c instead of throwing books out i always give them to the library and for some reason i have 1000s of shitty books

Theft is always wrong whether it be from a company, from an individual or by a government

Are the only bookstores you've ever seen used ones?

Get out of here with your absolutist morality. I'd steal to feed my children if I hadn't any option. I'd also steal a book if there was no other way to read it.

Thieving is wrong
>I would steal tho!!!
So? Is less wrong because you do it?

>absolutist morality
Principled morality

>I'd steal to feed my children if I hadn't any option
If it's ok to steal food for children and there are always starving children then you agree to have all of your food taken from you to feed them.

>I'd also steal a book if there was no other way to read it
How is that moral?
I'd steal a video game if there was no other way to play it. I'd steal a car if there was no other way to drive it.
Where do you draw the line?

Roasted

>Only of piracy is theft

Yarr we've come to steal your booty. We fundamentally view intellectual property as a delusion of those within the institution yarr. You can't have full owner ship over that gold and spices because the free market will naturally redistribute them, you scurvy dog.

I do take your meaning, but it was too much of an opportunity to pass up.

Fucking theives.
Kill yourselves.

>all of your food taken from you to feed them.
It's wrong if you are affecting the victim of the theft in such a way as to leave them without food. Stealing food isn't wrong when you are not fucking over someone who also needs it. Think supermarkets and chain stores. Ideally, the system would make stealing food unnecessary.

>I'd also steal a book if there was no other way to read it.
Again, chain libraries and such. To acquire culture is different than stealing for pure escapism or financial gain. I can't stand to lose potential new writers (or even potentially better educated people), in order to protect a chain store. It is only wrong if you have the means to acquire it legally though.

>all of your food taken from you to feed them.
It's wrong if you are affecting the victim of the theft in such a way as to leave them without food. Stealing food isn't wrong when you are not fucking over someone who also needs it. Think supermarkets and chain stores. Ideally, the system would make stealing food unnecessary.

Also, this only applies in cases of extreme necessity, when there's no other option available. If there's work available, then you have to work and it's wrong to steal. But I'd never condemn a man who stole food in order to survive, when there wasn't any other option available.

Yes, when I was a student. I needed this very expensive book for college and I couldn't afford it.
I was surprised that it worked like a charm. So I went back to the same bookstore a few weeks later and took a Pléiade.
Went back to try to get another one, but they'd moved the pléiade collection to a locked stand.