Comments for this is your brain on books https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on I Am Now a Card-Carrying Member of the Brooklyn Public Library by Kelly Cautillo https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/i-am-now-a-card-carrying-member-of-the-brooklyn-public-library/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:17:23 +0000 http://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-34 That makes sense, really. I’ve not borrowed a book for a long time as I either sit in the library, or can find them cheap enough to buy online. I moan that libraries and bookshops are closing, but I rarely seem to use them. I just remember using them loads when I was in my teens – they were my sanctuary. So it kind of feels like other kids that are like the way I was might not have that refuge… it’s so sad.

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Comment on I Am Now a Card-Carrying Member of the Brooklyn Public Library by yourbrainonbooks https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/i-am-now-a-card-carrying-member-of-the-brooklyn-public-library/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:39:47 +0000 http://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-33 It’s actually becoming a lot more common here in the States because libraries are having a tough time getting people to pay up. Usually the library system sets a limit for how many fines/fees you can accrue before they contact a collection agency; in the Brooklyn library system, it’s $25.00.

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Comment on I Am Now a Card-Carrying Member of the Brooklyn Public Library by Kelly Cautillo https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/i-am-now-a-card-carrying-member-of-the-brooklyn-public-library/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:07:34 +0000 http://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-31 Do you think they would actually send collection agents? I don’t think they’ve ever done that over here. They tend to send a few letters, I think, but that’s about it. I know universities are really strict on it though. They go on about restricting access to libraries, and withholding your degree paperwork so you don’t officially graduate until you payback any debts.

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Comment on I Am Now a Card-Carrying Member of the Brooklyn Public Library by yourbrainonbooks https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/i-am-now-a-card-carrying-member-of-the-brooklyn-public-library/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:50:46 +0000 http://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-30 It seems to me a lose-lose situation; the borrower (though, of course, s/he has borrowed the books voluntarily) must deal with fines that stack up over time, and the library must deal with many nearly empty shelves. I’d hope that borrowers wouldn’t be silly enough to try to sell library books, though, since they’d just have to pay back the full price of the book to the library somewhere down the line or deal with being hounded by a collection agency.

In any case, I, like you, am perfectly happy with just taking out a handful of books at a time!

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Comment on I Am Now a Card-Carrying Member of the Brooklyn Public Library by Kelly Cautillo https://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/i-am-now-a-card-carrying-member-of-the-brooklyn-public-library/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:23:48 +0000 http://yourbrainonbooks.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-29 I was thinking the concern would be for the library (books never coming back, and probably sold for cash on the internet). I never even considered the possibility of it being a con for the borrower! I feel so sorry for those who do fall into that trap, and end up in debt to the library.

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