Bad Neighbors: Don't Bring Too Many Books When You Move In

[Sophia]

What kind of library limits do you guys have?  I've had 50-ish books out at a time, and haven't hit the limit, although I know there is one.  There is a limit of 20 for the hold list.  I've come close to that. 

[Amava]

What kind of library limits do you guys have?  I've had 50-ish books out at a time, and haven't hit the limit, although I know there is one.  There is a limit of 20 for the hold list.  I've come close to that. 

Mine is 10.

[Rosgrana]

Your library really asks about racial background? Is that of any particular interest to them?

Yes, it's something almost all public services in the UK try to keep track of. If, say, 20% of City X inhabitants are Kumquat, but only 3% of library users are, then we're either not providing what the Kumquat community want, or not publicising what we provide well enough. Having a service that isn't seen as sufficiently inclusive is a good way to get your funding slashed.

(The Mountain Rescue Service has real problems with this. For whatever reasons, mountain activities are significantly less popular with almost all the UK's minority fruit types, and the Mountain Rescue Service catch heck for not rescuing enough Kumquats. But if no Kumquats get into trouble on the mountain, they're a bit stuck. )

[Hushabye]

What kind of library limits do you guys have?  I've had 50-ish books out at a time, and haven't hit the limit, although I know there is one.  There is a limit of 20 for the hold list.  I've come close to that. 

Mine is 10.

Mine is 50 books, ten movies, not sure how many books on CD.

[Corbin]

What kind of library limits do you guys have?  I've had 50-ish books out at a time, and haven't hit the limit, although I know there is one.  There is a limit of 20 for the hold list.  I've come close to that. 

Mine is 10.

Mine is 50 books, ten movies, not sure how many books on CD.

6. Which will barely get me through a plane trip...

[Sophia]

Six?!?  No wonder you guys have multiple cards.  I think I have 6 items waiting for me on the hold shelf at the library. 

This thread has made me realize that if ever I wanted to start a business which involved shipping scandalous items, I think the business name would have "books" in the title.  Except for whack-a-loons like DQ and this neighbor, people don't bat an eye at book shipments. 

[littlelauraj]

Sophia, you made me chuckle.  Let's just say that scandalous items are most certainly available from one of the internet's biggest book sellers.  It's almost as good as a plain brown wrapper, except if the kids see the box they want to know if there's anything in there for them.

[Joannie81]

In our house, you see books everywhere.  It's going to be hard when DD1 moves out because a lot of them are hers.  We will have to go through them to make sure she takes hers and not mine!  Plus I have my Nook with 10 pages of books so far.  (Have to wait until pay day to add a couple of more.  Plus I go through and get a lot of the free books offered.)  I think I could qualify for the BBB Club.  I have all 3 (D cup) books everywhere and I do have a brain that I use on occasion.

[Midnight Kitty]

So, in short, your detail didn't bother me personally,

Groan!

[OK, back to reading the thread before commenting]

[judecat]

Hi,  I'm new here,  and very late for the party but I I just wanted to say that I need to be in your "who could possibly have that many books" club.

I rent a room in a boarding house,  I moved with a bed,  2 dressers,  a trunk,  5 boxes of cloths, computer, desk, chair and 4 bookshelves and 25 boxes of books.

[Yarnspinner]

Same here.  I had a lot of furniture, but I have four book cases I came with and two more that were built in to my walls....and at least twenty boxes of books.  Who is it that can live without books?

[DangerMouth]

Same here.  I had a lot of furniture, but I have four book cases I came with and two more that were built in to my walls....and at least twenty boxes of books.  Who is it that can live without books?

Tell me about it

I was discussing e-readers with my sis the other day, and she said, 'well, it's not the same, there is just something about a book...'

Yah. Not a single bookshelf in her house, no books except for her kid's books (my niece is a reader, thank the PTB), and I doubt my sis has read a book in 20 years.

Incomprehensible to me.

[Suze]

you CAN be a huge reader and not have many books if you go to a libiary for all of them.

I have friends that do that.  To look at thier house you would think that they don't read a word that is printed

but get to know them and there is a stack of libiary books here and there in the house.  (they put them "away" when "company" is coming)

now me I have a "bazillion" books according to the kids.....

[DangerMouth]

you CAN be a huge reader and not have many books if you go to a libiary for all of them.

I have friends that do that.  To look at thier house you would think that they don't read a word that is printed

but get to know them and there is a stack of libiary books here and there in the house.  (they put them "away" when "company" is coming)

now me I have a "bazillion" books according to the kids.....

My mother is that kind of reader. I don't think she owns a single book, yet goes through 3 or 4 library books a week.

Trust me when I say my sister is not a reader 

[Twik]

(The Mountain Rescue Service has real problems with this. For whatever reasons, mountain activities are significantly less popular with almost all the UK's minority fruit types, and the Mountain Rescue Service catch heck for not rescuing enough Kumquats. But if no Kumquats get into trouble on the mountain, they're a bit stuck. )

Maybe they can change the way they calculate the statistics? "We have a 0% failure rate in recuing kumquats who get lost on our mountain."