Note found in a recalled copy of Hypertext 3.0

[philthecow]

If you are reading this book

Comments

[justice_fishy]

I only have one response, buy the book off Amazon and stop bitching...

Unless I'm missing the point entirely

[philthecow]

The point is the poetry of this person's loss!

[nosuchweather]

at my school you can take out books for your thesis for the entire year.

it's really, really, really nice. and it sucks big-time to not have the books one needs for one's thesis. speaking of which i am going on amazon right now style.

[duckrabbit]

That's true at our school too. I don't know what that person's problem is.

[philthecow]

That I recalled it! *gasp* I'm afraid they'll track me down and kill me.

[crystalpyramid]

They can always just recall it back from you...

[liseuse]

Oh good grief. It's not like it's going to be in someone else's hands forever. Plus, you could just buy it. That's why Amazon exists after all!

Also, my department issued us all with letters to take to the library saying that we could have our core or major dissertation texts out until the deadline had passed so that this doesn't happen. I think people can still recall them, but when they're done with them, we get the right back. However, this is mostly because we all went with odd little dissertation topics which no one else is interested in. I doubt that anyone else wants the 1894 Bullen edition of Middleton's collected works, and if they do, I am willing to pay the fines so I don't have to return them for the next twenty days - which is when I have to hand the damn thing in anyway.

[philthecow]

And Interlibrary Loan. *shakes head*

There is a strange poetry to this insanity, though.

[liseuse]

There is indeed. I found myself slightly amused that someone would be disconsolate at not having a book entitled Hypertext 3.0 in their hands, and then I looked it up on amazon, and was slightly less amused. And a little more intrigued.

[miraling]

On the one hand, the sheer drama of it is amusing. On the other hands, thesis-writing seniors tend to be somewhat less than sane, so you may want to get it back to the library as soon as you're done with it.

[_swallow]

Hilarious! I would reply on the other side of the paper that their sense of entitlement is disgusting and that if they like the book so much they should support the author(s) and buy their own copy.

I'm sympathetic to the high emotion felt by someone who urgently needs a text for their study, but I'm also often bowled over by how college library patrons seem to think the library is an extension of their own living room (did you see the note in the McCabe suggestion book that the library should stock iPod chargers?).

[_swallow]

I mean, iirc, one has something like five days to return a recalled book. That's totally long enough to make arrangements to get it from another library or a bookstore.

[crystalpyramid]

Wait, last time I knew anything about iPods (which was back when the size of a small paperback), you could plug them into a Mac to recharge them. If this is still true, since McCabe is full of Macs, McCabe is already full of iPod chargers.

[_swallow]

Yeah, but you still need a special cable.