/lit/ - Literature

Sorry, most of those are in WAY too good of a condition.

>>443381
my university is 10 years old. all of our collection is new an expanding. we only have around 40,000 books all up atm.

Are you poor, or just a bad person?

>tokyopop manga
>everything is perfect condition
>stolen from university library

no

>harry potter
I didn't know they let 7 year olds into university

>>443386
poor. it started with just textbooks, then moved onto fiction and non fiction.

Must feel really good stealing shitty books.

>>443387
obviously the manga isnt from there you fucking stillborn.

>>443392
it does. ty.

>>443370
manga at your university library lol what is this evergreen?

>>443370 your collection is quite tame bro so I am currently don't want to strangle you; but as your obligation to the health of the student body and for /lit/ you are obligated to steal every ayn rand book there is and every copy to replace said book

>>443384
steal me a print of roadside picnic

>>443393
ooo yet you say the image is of a handful of fiction you have stolen.

Sounds to me like you haven't stolen shit. Enjoy having to make up stories to make yourself seem less boring then you are.

dont steal from the library. : (

>>443400
yup. a handful. handful = not all. not everything in the photo is fiction. there are 11 works of non fiction in that photo but i thought /lit/ would be intelligent enough to know the difference.

Go away.

How do you do it? Remove stickers in the toilets?

Or wrap the book in al foil?

>>443407
yeah, you are right.

It must be our fault for not being able to see the titles on the side of the book since the picture is so fucking small to see most the books.
And for the fact you posted an image and then say
>pic related - a handful on fiction stuff I've stolen.
and expect us to just figure out you didn't mean the whole image.

what were we thinking?!

>>443411
just remove the stickers in the aisles.

>>443413
>pic related

>>443420
You got intellectually ass-raped

stealing from libraries is stupid. Just borrow the books. It's like stealing money from charities (good ones, not the shitty ones).

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if you actually loved books you wouldn't steal books and further contribute to the many problems libraries are facing.

fuck you.

>>443491

I don't really condone stealing but these are uni libraries we're talking about. Their overdue fines and whatnot are ridiculous, and they've always got the funding to burn. And most of the faculty practically steal books all the time.

stealing from secondary school libraries is fine since its like picking meat from a 12 week old carcass.

stealing from a university library makes me want to murder you.

>>443507
First, lots of universities are facing budget cuts. This means the libraries won't have the money to replace some/all of the books. Even if they DO replace them, the money could have been spent on NEW books.

Second, if you're in university, you're old enough to take the TINY amount of responsibility it requires to return your fucking books on time. When the library allows you to use their books for free or for a very small cost, you're agreeing to return them by a specific date. Grow the fuck up.

Third, who the fuck cares if faculty steals books? Guess what, people people rob banks, too. Since other people rob banks, it must be moral for YOU to rob banks.

I once suggested that a school get the 300 comic

every.. single.. copy was stolen

fuck you

most university libraries have extremely generous lending schedules. you can keep a book for year within the rules.

Wow, you're a dick. You could just check them out. It's free, you dumbfuck, or did you not know that.

fuck this thieving shit-head child.

op inspired me,

I'm going to start stealing books too

fuck you all

hahahaha

you don't need to steal from a library - you can take them away for free, as long as you bring them back when you've read them

have you read the books you've stolen?

>risks his degree on stealing harry potter books
>thinks people will want to ask him for answers about anything

retard

>>443621
Shut up OP. Come back when you're 18.

I'm going to steal books.
Not because I care about the university's funding, or the loss the other students will endure, but because I want to, and it conveniences me not to return books, and the fact that others will not benefit.

A leech? Parasite? Criminal? Karma does not exist, and my acts will lead to nothing. It just has to be done.

>>443636
It /conveniences/ you to deprive others of the chance to read?
and it doesn't have to be done. not even remotely. you're just a shithead, and I hope you get hit by a car ASAP.

eh, a library is already there so you can read books without paying for them, so stealing them gains you nothing.

>he steals books he could read for free
>he doesn't even read what he steals

Please be some kind of new /lit/ troll that doesn't involve Ayn Rand.

>>443645
>I hope you get hit by a car

Stealing books: A CRIME WORTHY OF GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM, POSSIBLY DEATH


But seriously, OP is an asshole.

>>443717
we live in an overpopulated world, man, and assholes, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO VIOLATE MY BELOVED LITERATURE are just a waste of space.
twilight fans deserve to die more though.

op is the faggot

OP is a jerk.

Jeez, man, at least steal from a big evil corporation or something, not a library where A) there are limited copies, B) they are freely available, and C) people you know might be deprived of books they urgently need for their work or something.

Jeez, man, at least steal from a big evil corporation or something, not a library where A) there are limited copies, B) they are freely available, and C) people you know might be deprived of books they urgently need for their work.

>>443397

No need for that good sir!

http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780575079786/Roadside-Picnic?utm_campaign=usbooko&utm_medium
=api&utm_source=AU&utm_content=Roadside-Picnic&utm_term=9780575079786

>>443636

>Borrow one book, return said book then get another.

Sure is hard to return those books.

>my face when I realised that I could probably get £20 at most by selling these books second hand, and then realising that my student debt will end up being way over £12k.

OP is a retard. Stealing from a library is stupid, but your taste in books also sucks. I might even think the library would be happy about being relieved of its Harry Potter and Tom Clancy shit.

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>trollface.jpg

This doesn't happen so much here in Australia...

>>444000
I think it does at Adelaide Uni. Our lending times are 4-6 weeks MAX and they MUST be returned (ie - you cannot renew them until they've been returned and are on the shelf).

By the way, I went to SMU for an exchange lol. Library was cool.

>>444004
Perhaps for textbooks, but not really for fictional novels.

Probably the international students that steal them anyways :P

>>444009
Nah. The international students are the ones who spend $30 photocopying them, then get the pages confiscated because they contravene copyright laws.

>>444014
Because in China copyright doesn't really exist in our sense...

>>444014

What the fuck kind of nigger copyright laws you have in Chingapore?

>>444018
You mean Australia?

>>444018 see >>444004

>>444020
>>444019

Two Unis were mentioned in that post. The last being SMU which is OP's. Assumed the replier to that post was talking about SMU.

I don't know what the fuck is happening in Adelaide Uni though, cause that's not breach of copyright under Australian law.

>>444004
>Fellow Adelaide Uni student

>>444021
I think it is illegal. The whole 'Do not illegally duplicate this content' type message is made multiple times. Usually has a picture of a photocopier with a stop sign around it too.

>>444021
Photocopying an entire textbook (ie - reprinting without permission) contravenes federal copyright law. You can ONLY photocopy 10% of any chapter.

>>444022
Whoa. Degree, major and year?

Bachelor of Business, majoring in Accountancy with a Professional Accountancy Extension, and a minor/extension probably in Regulation and Tax, or Forensics.

I go to QUT ^^

>>444026

You are a uni student. Selling and profiting is bad. Learning is good.

>>444038
I don't agree with the costs of the textbooks, but we do get it pretty easy.

Half of fees paid for, other half of HECS/Help.

Then there's youth allowance and a shitload other things on offer. University-based equity scholarships.

List goes on and on for only having to study 2-4 days a week (I go 2 days a week, crammed it in)

>>444030
First year, Bachelor of Nursing.
And you, sir?

I'm impressed by the huge library!

>>444042
Commerce (accounting) and economics. I'm doing 2 degrees concurrently. Both in my final year.

I love the Barr Smith library. I often go down to the lowest level were all the 330 books are and just read in the aisles.

>>444056
Can you apply for CPA/CA straight after graduating? Or do you need work experience first?

>>444037
>QUT

>>444064
Best university in my state for what I do...

Go fuck yourself, pretentious dick.

>>444061
You can start your CPA while you're still studying. The CA program is a post-graduate diploma that you can only start once working. You finish the 5 modules, then complete 3 years work experience to gain your CA qualification. It's much better getting your CA.

>>444068
Apparently I don't need to be working in the field, nor have three years work experience to go for CA, because I'm doing a professional accounting extension.

So I heard.

>>444075
What the fuck is a professional accounting extension?

>>443370
Meditate on this:

You are a thief.
You can't be trusted.
Now or ever.
Even by yourself.

In a world of moral relativism, you have proved yourself to be forever absolutely dishonest.

You must always rate yourself among the less worthy.

>>444307
>In a world of moral relativism, you have proved yourself to be forever absolutely dishonest.
>relativism
>proved absolutely

myface.jpg

>>444307

Meditate on this:

You've made arbitrary statements.

They're nothing but conjecture.

Ergo, you are now infertile.

You can never have children.

I made a fake account with the library and took some shit. Not much.
IMSOHARDCORELIKEMEINTERNETPLZ

It's painfully easy to steal books from libraries. I hope the Winter of my life doesn't see this cruel trend in piracy lengthening

Our world will become very unpleasant to live in if we do not reconsider our moral pole as a society.

why steal books when it is free to write them for yourself op is a faggot.jpg

>>444311
relativism, absolute: quite an accomplishment, no?

>>444312
arbitrary, conjecture

Not at all. By OPs testimony, he stole. He thieves. In the future, he will have stolen. His past is fixed.

He is now and forever less to be trusted than someone who has never stolen.

I pass over the possibility that, since he steals, he lies, so that, knowing that he lies, when he says he steals, we must think that he does not.

I don't believe you, but if it is true you are a dick.

>>444343

>You can't be trusted.
>Now or ever.
>Even by yourself.
>absolutely dishonest.

Sorry bro, these are all non-sequiturs, none of them follow from being "less to be trusted than someone who has never stolen"

Did I see a Tom Clancy book there? Who would want to steal that pile of shit?

>A leech? Parasite? Criminal? Karma does not exist, and my acts will lead to nothing. It just has to be done.

>>444354
Suppose you have two pens. One has always written smoothly, one has sputtered on occasion. You are to write to the Queen. Which pen do you choose (supposing your antimonarchical sentiments are suppressed)?

By the same token, this fellow is not to be trusted or is to be trusted less than another not yet known by his actions or words to be untrustworthy.

And the taint adheres into the future because his past is fixed. He stole. He is now and will forever be a thief.

i would beat the shit out of your litle ffaggot ass irl, why not just pay for shit, ask as a gift from your parents?

>>444380

>5'8"
>140 lbs.

>>444378
And I would add that this fellow knows himself to be dishonest and so must know that he can dishonor his own honest intentions. Hence he must distrust himself. More than, say, someone must who has never gone back on his word - or in this case, the general agreement that one's property will not be converted by another.

Thieves give me the creeps. Murderers of our ease, someone said.

99% of my books are from my high school library's discard bin.

I fail as a human being :(

i only steal moleskines.

But.. what do you do when you've read them? Surely you don't want to keep every single book you've read.

wish I knew what university you are in..I would hand your douchebag ass over to the feds..

>>444431
you dont fail son.
99 perecent of mine is from thrift stores,library sales and used book stores.

what shitty library does your university have? i go to a community college and we have nothing but hardcovers

Universities are disgustingly wasteful. I would not feel bad about stealing from them.

Maybe American universities are different, I don't know. But ours spend in the way that men do when it's not their money and there's no benefits to being penny-pinching and efficient.

>>445355

My father worked for one briefly and it sounded like a man could earn a decent living just on finding out when and where they toss out shit they no longer need but could easily sell.

>>444431
You don't fail for picking up discards. You do fail for reading John Jakes.

>>445355
No, they're very wasteful over here too. For instance, my (former) school installed a several hundred thousand dollar sculpture and raised tuition the same year.

I would still never steal from a library. Libraries are the crown jewel of the western world.

>>445175
Uhh, see the t-shirt in the first post genius.

>>445355

The thing is, the library is the one part where they're not wasting whenever they spend any money. Many books in university libraries are rare and necessary for peoples' study. Just check online vendors for the price of Oxford/Yale UP scholarly books, especially in the humanities. I'd buy those books if they weren't often $250 plus. Having books like that sit on a thief's bookshelf and collect dust without being read is just as wasteful.

Why are you stealing from libraries you piece of shit? Books don't have value in the paper but in the knowledge. I found an old library book I accidentally kept after I moved and sent it back with a fifty dollar check in it once.

>>446618

Never thought I could respect a poster on any of these boards.

Here, Anon, you earned this.

>>446618
That's because you're a huge faggot.

I see nothing wrong with taking books from Australian universities. Fact is, more often than not, the uni will buy 3-6 copies of the same book and put them on a "short loan" scheme for the first 5-10 years (meaning you can only borrow them for a few weeks). Afterwards the lending time gets bumped up to 2 months.

The majority of the books I check out haven't been borrowed since the fucking 90's. If there is another 4 copies on the shelf, why not take it if you're going to benefit from it. Fuck paying $250 for a textbook that you'll only use for a semester or two.

>>446661
Australian Unversity - Isn't that an oxymoron?

>>443370

why would you steal things from a library

oh wait... 4chan... ok, you're hilarious and edgy and all, IRL though I hope you get caught

>>446661

Re-phrase that. There's nothing wrong with stealing from the major uni's. Your Uni of Melbourne, Monash and Sydney et. al.

Those private school bastards and the narrow-minded exam monkeys with inflated TER scores can go fuck a duck as far as I'm concerned.

>>446691
Not according to world rankings XD

>English translation of Train Man

wut?

It's pretty arrogant to think the whole system is going to come crashing down if you pocket a few books.

Plus, ereader trolls aside... None of it will matter at all soon. Books will be pirated and traded and as easily obtainable as mp3s.

>>446661
>$250 text book
and which class is "harry potter" a text for?

>>446790
> arrogant
i realize you are trying to say something, but i don't think you are succeeding.

>>443507
completely untrue. my university library's book acquisition budget was but to 0 for the next 2 years

lol, do you know why we CAN steal books? because it is not worth protecting them. if they were so assfucked by a missing book here and there none of us would be able to take fucking anything. we are not skilled thieves.

the shit that university libraries DO treasure is much harder to take

>>446857
yea, steal more so the library actually has to spend money on prevention measures. fucking genius

>>446857

No they trust that someone able to go to college is smart enough to realize it is not in your best interest to steal library books. See how a library works is that the library buys one copy of a book, and more than one person can read it. The other way is that you buy all of your own books. You cannot see the big picture. You will soon be washing dishes for the non-library book thieves.

>>446867

All of the arguments against stealing from large, wealthy concerns only apply if EVERYONE robs them fucking blind.

Will everyone rob them blind? No. Only a few will ever steal and they can easily afford it.

>>446895
not really. stealing 1 book means 1 less book for others to borrow, and 1 more book for the library to replace. the scale situation presents only a quantitative difference.

How do you like Saiyuki, OP?

It's the same Japanese folk tale that Dragon Ball is based on, but much truer to the actual tale and also tits.

>>444431
Dude, if you enjoy reading the books, it doesn't matter if they come from a library discard bin.

>>444318
Care you share what you have written?

>>446823 I am this guy
>>446661

I'm not the OP. Direct your question to the OP.