Have you ever lost or damaged any of your library books?

Well that was the first time the excuse - the dog ate my homework could actually be true. The only time I had to replace a library book was a few years ago, I had taken out a book, and had a lot of errands to run on the day it was due - I ran into a friend and asked him to drop it off in the collection bin since the library was already closed. He said sure, well he says he did, but the library charged me for it. That was really annoying. I don't go to the library as much now as I did when I was younger, because I buy books in thrift shops (along with other stores which often have sales), and since they are quite cheap, I can get a few and not worry if I take a year to read one, as is the case of one that I have on my bedside table, or if it gets sand and water on it when I go to the beach. If I had to replace every book that happens too, well. The books I do loan from libraries are normally books I can't find or are too expensive so I am very careful with them because I definitely do not want to pay for a replacement.

hi Porcospino, first of all getting library books in our country is very very less that too, some 40 years back i am reading some library books,they are very cheap on those days,Telugu books are cheap rate below one dollar,neither i have damaged any books nor i have paid compensation for them,my reading habit of books is very very less when compared with yours,have a nice day.

As a kid I lost quite a few of my library books or I returned them late and my mother had to pay the fees for this. Normally I would end up finding my library books after the fact, but by the time I found them we had so many late fees tacked on that it was more worth it just to buy it.

Hi Porcospino I lost a library book when I was new and just learned cycling. It was in 1987-88 when I had learned to ride and asked a friend to allow me to ride his bicycle to the school. I had a kind of reporters bag those days for school (this is a kind of a hanging bag which doesnt have a zipper or a button to close the bag on top), I had stuffed my books and even this one "The Solar System and the Sun" which I had from our school library. On the way, I got imbalanced and fell from the cycle (the cycle was a bigger one and my feet couldnt touch the ground when I had to stop and as I was new, I didnt know the tricks either). Though nothing serious happened to me, but my pens, and this book fell out (i guess this is what happened) but I was more focussed on my fall and felt embarrassed. I quickly got up, and drove to school - only when I was at the library to return the book, I realized that I had lost it and even the pens. I had to pay twice the costs for the book as per the rules as the book wasnt available in any of the book stores (those days we had only a couple of book seller shops here and it was a small town). Even I had to borrow a pen from my friend to write out. The worst which happened in all this was that I lost the Pen as it was of my late grandfather and had a gold nib (I used fountain pens those days and I still love them - but today the ones which are available are much costly and even dont write that great). But my grandfather never said anything to me about losing that pen of his, he only said, to learn my lesson from this - When in a mess, care for yourself first and Never about what others (onlookers) would think about - if I had followed this, maybe I would have looked around for the things which had popped out from my bag.

Nope, not for library books as I always keep them in a safe place. But I have ever damaged my friend's novel and I felt really bad. First thing is because I would feel really annoyed when it happens to MY own books! I would be very mad to people who do it. And second, I know this friend is also a book freak like I am, so I know how she felt. Maybe because it's me who broke it, she didn't get angry. I brought her novel to the bathroom and when I tried to put it on the counter, I apparently didn't put it correctly so it fell and got wet. I planned to buy her with the new one but she said it's alright.

I haven't gone to a library in a long time. When I was younger i know I lost a few. My parents had to pay for those books and one of them or two we didn't have to pay for because the librarian said it was given to the library for free as a donation so it wasn't that they lost the money for it. But I felt bad for those. I've always been taught the good of books and that you should treat them well. This was our teaching as younger children and I try to teach my nieces this same thing. I never damaged a book so bad that I had to replace it or pay for it though.

No, because if I had I then know that I would have to pay for the book, and some of those books can cost a lot of money to replace, and some can't be replaced. I have had many of friends who have lost and damaged them, and yes, they did have to pay for them.

i have lost a couple and ended up paying for them. our library is pretty forgiving. however, once they accused me of not returning a book. it was a book about the 20th century that had entries for each year, so it was quite large. i told them that i returned it and the librarian who called me said 'okay, let me take a look' and so she did and came back to the phone just to tell 'yes, it is on the shelf'.

I let my neighbor borrow my library books. I thought she was going to drop them off at the library when she was done. They were small paperback romance novels, worth $7.99 bought new. She never turned them in. I got a notice from the library that they were overdue. Needless to say the neighbor never did turn them in and they were lost. Well I tried to find the same titles to turn them in as replacements. They would not accept the replacements because they did not have the same ISBN #. So the exact same books by the same author but different ISBN #'s and they would not accept them. They wanted $25 each for these $8 books. I was floored. I eventually paid them off but I think they really railroaded me.

No, I've always tried to take very good care of library books. I've kept them longer than I should have in some cases and wound up returning them way late. Once, in our neighborhood, I found a library book in the gutter. It looked like it had seen rain and hail, and it was so soggy, but I did what I thought I should do and returned it to the library it belonged to. I felt a little second-hand embarrassment, coming in with a nasty library book I knew someone else was going to take the fall for replacing.

I have never lost or damaged library books and I think most of us can tell the same, as we are using them more carefully than our own. It can be very expensive to pay for some type of books.

no so far i have not lost or fudged those library books ,i have always maintained them with care and treated it properly and returned them with the best possible condition since i treat them with high priority since its some one else books

I have lost plenty of books. I have so many books that i think some are mixed up in mine. I've lost some while moving. Some I believe friends "borrowed" them. I just buy my books now me and the library are not compatible, and I've had to pay them $45 too.

The last time I can remember damaging a book was during primary school. At the time, I didn't know I had damaged it at first. I put the book in my backpack; however, I did not remember, I had left my lunch in the same pocket of the backpack. When I got home, I opened my backpack; it seems my chocolate milk drink spilled its content all over the pages. Unfortunately, the book was paperback and a bit worn out already, which meant some of the pages just dropped off from the spine of the book. I felt so bad that I tried telling my mom that I would try to pay for it with my piggy bank money. Although it was just a handful of coins, I learned never put library books in the same backpack pocket as the pocket with food.

I no longer visit the library since I often do my research on the net. But during my high school days and college days, I frequent the library for research and sonetimes borrow books. Gladly I have never lost any and have not damaged any. I had an account with or city library and it's very great with no history of lost or damage books and not even a penalty for late return.

I not damaged or loose any library books but I know my daughter loose one book and she fill the fine rs. 300 for this books. She cried more but I say okkk dont worry and next time be careful. Ohhh hiting car thank God you are safe.

Hi friend, sad to hear about this, i never damaged any library book, i am very much careful in handling the library book. Always keep it safe and return it in a good manner

Well i am glad to tell you that i never lost a book while i was studying. I am the kind of guy who is very compliant with library rules so I make sure that the book i borrowed is kept safe and returned on due date without any scratch or signs of damage.