How do you cope when you lose a book?

[Anonymous No.18934669]

Some real life stories


>Forget book on a bench in the park/on the bus/
>Lend book to "friends" - Argue over shit/life goes on/never hear from them again
>Books has broken spine. Bring it to book binder dude. "Come back in two weeks". Come back in two weeks, "Sorry had lots of work, come back in two weeks." - Completely forget, remember years later.

inb4:just buy it new
That would cost 10-20 times what I payed my book + wouldn't be same edition + wouldn't have my personal notes on the side + sentimental value

[Anonymous No.18935123]

I am almost worryingly and definitely annoyingly careful and mindful of my books, unlikely to lose any.

>>Lend book to "friends" - Argue over shit/life goes on/never hear from them again
It's bizarre how many people have such stories, friends just forgetting books altogether and shit. People really are inconsiderate assholes.

[Anonymous No.18935380]

I was taking an individual seminar class with my professor about the Roman Republic, reaching the very end he told me he was going to give me a book about Augustus he highly recommended. It was part congratulations on the class, part birthday present, my birthday being the 25th. That was to be the 28th for our last class meeting, I'd be going to Italy for the summer on the 31st, being motivated by the stories he'd tell me of his travels there. He passed away on the 27th. I was told that there was never any book about Augustus found in his office, so it was presumably in his home library, which had a 700+ page catalogue and years later still hasn't been sorted out. I was never able to go to either.

[Anonymous No.18935411]

>>18934669
Knowledge is in the mind, not in things