Books

[sleeping_ox]

I'm so disappointed in people now...If you've been at tech for 5 years, and you've checked out less than ten books, you simply fail at life. End of story. Don't care if you buy stuff, thats 5 years and less then ten books. You no longer win any argument with me on anything remotely related to literature, reading, writing, and I've lost a lot of

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[adamjaskie]

Tech's library fails. It is sorely lacking in books that pique my interest, and I already have a HUGE backlog in my "to read" pile. At my current rate of pile reduction (three books out and two books in every two months or so on average), I won't be done reading those for a couple years. I really only use Tech's library for periodicals, and only then when I can't find them online. Sorry to disappoint you.

If I don't want a book badly enough to buy it, I borrow it from a friend or my parents. If those easy routes are exhausted, I will try the library. Usually, if I get to this point without buying a book, I don't really care about reading it. That means the book goes on the bottom of my pile, where I will forget about it until a month or two down the road, at which time I will put it in a stack to go back to the library, forget about it for another two months, then find it again when cleaning my room. I will then put it next to the door so that I will remember to take it back, walk right past it the next morning, put a stack of old mail on top of it when I get home, and forget about it for another month. Finally, I will trip over the pile, breaking my toe and requiring an expensive hospital visit. After returning from the hospital, I will put the book in the backseat of my car, where I will completely forget about it for ANOTHER three or four months, then finally return it during a hurculean effort to clean the interior of my car. Seven to nine months later, that book will have cost me over a thousand dollars in late fees and medical bills, and I STILL will not have read it.

That's why I don't use Tech's library. Or the Ann Arbor library anymore for that matter. I find myself quite capable of racking up $20+ in late fees (to my poor mother's horror; I was ten or eleven at the time), so buying books is generally cheaper in the long run, especially if I can find them used for cheap.