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0 pointsbawolff3y ago0 comments

Dipping your book in sea water is not normal "heavy use". If you do that to your library book the library will probably make you purchase a new one.

Anyways the reason to treat library books reasonably nicely (not with gloves, but like a reasonable person) is not because books are sacred. Its because library books are not yours, they are something you are borrowing from someone else. Treating other people's possesions that you are borrowing with respect is just common courtsey.

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hutzlibu3y ago

"If you do that to your library book the library will probably make you purchase a new one."

Sure thing, which is why I would not do this with libary or borrowed books in general, but rather buy it cheap second hand, before I take them to the beach with me.

"Treating other people's possesions that you are borrowing with respect is just common courtsey."

Sure thing. I was refering to the general habit of rough use of books, not that it is nice or acceptable to treat borrowed things badly.

bawolffOP3y ago

Fair enough, i probably shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. If its your own book (and not a rare book), by all means do whatever you want with it.

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