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Done two years ago!">

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Been there, done that.
My school library has two books by Dirk Strasser called Zenith and Equinox which I liked when I read them. When I went back for a re-read however they were missing. I figured, I can wait for a while. And I did. After eight months of waiting, I convinced the librarian to tell me who had Zenith. (There are advantages to actually talking to the librarians!). Just as I was getting up the courage to go and 'talk' to the book-napper when they strode past me and returned both books! I swooped on both even before they were returned, much to the amusement of the watching staff.

The best things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening

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I've been dead for a while now, so far I don't like it...

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And the reader of your post (me!)...

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I'm glad someone found that amusing Draco.

The best things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening

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I've been dead for a while now, so far I don't like it...

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I usually go hunting and attack snarling!

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We have a limit of 5 too...">
The max I've had is 11

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Everyone was afraid of our Librarian, he was a bit of a QUIET
Fanatic and hated to much noise....

so if he told you to bring back a book it would be back next week not in 8 months time...i was so lucky

the limit of books was 5 for everybody, at one stage i had 16, these wernt just fantasy books - also had lots of stuff for world war 1...."> "> ">

Ahhhhhh the good old days

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Librarians rule

Im so cheeky im cheeky cheeky cheeky, im so cheeky lol

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Hahahaha, we got 14 books to borrow ">

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But you have to give the books back once you've read them...how can you do that?

Adios

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With great difficulty, which is why I have so many overdue books...

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I know just what you mean Dragonemisis....there is some good books that i read in that library that i was loath to part will, that is also where i got hooked on Katherine Kerr...Read my JRR Tolkien's, Ian Irvine and many many more...lol

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join the club...

i layby.....lol or wait till my birthday when i usually get books....that could be cause i layby them and drop some MAJOR hints for what i want for my bday">

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Firstly, I would never discourage anyone from going to a library. I've stated before that I'm one of those sad little people who need to keep a copy of any book they read...so, libraries aren't of any use to me.

But, YOU HAVE TO READ, so if that's your only option...then so be it and I cast no nasturtiums. (Hell, I'd make a dental appointment just to read the 10 year old magazines if I had to.)

Secondly, let me make this perfectly clear...I don't spend a lot on books...can't, cause I don't have it to spend. I haunt second-hand shops, garage sales etc. (The only new books I ever get are just after my birthday and Christmas, cause everyone gives me book vouchers.)

Now this does mean that I take pot luck and I have little chance to stay as current as I might like, but that's the price I pay for not paying full price...and I always have the joy of the unexpected; coming across an old Vance that I haven't read, or an Aldiss, or that 3rd book I've been searching for to complete a series.

Bye the way, here's a trick. A lot of garage sales include books, and usually at very reasonable prices...20c to 50c, that kind of thing. Buy a whole pile of them, whatever they are, and take them to a second-hand shop and cash them in for credit. You can actually end up with way more than you started with. I've bought 50 books for $25.00 and then cashed them in for a $1.00 each.

I just wanted to make sure that nobody thought I was being a smart-arse about this.
I repeat, you have to read, and how you have to do it...is how you have to do it.

Adios

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I WOULD haunt second hand book shops, but my parents won't let me..."> "> "> They're too picky! Darn, no emoticon with a poking out tongue!

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Well thats the thing if you like the book, go out and buy it then... then you wouldn't have to worry about returning it ">

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i love second hand books to Dragonemisis

you should see the one at Coolangatta its called The second hand bookshop or the bookshop....anyway its huge and has soooooo many books for me to get lost in....

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There's no mean-looking sticky tongue one

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I'm one of those people that avoid libraries... I don't like the idea of not being able to own a bookhrug"> .... So hooraylider"> for second hand book stores!! (how people could get rid of such fine books just does not make sense to me!)
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MysteryChick, how people get rid of ANY books is beyond me.

"Though, having said that; I just love it when I go down to my local second-hand shop and find boxes of new books that someone has cashed in. (There's no room on the shelves down there any more, so they just sit in boxes on the floor...which is cool, cause it means I always know where to look first.)

Adios