<div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@well.com">jim@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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� how will "we" know that you have a particular book?<br>
(for the record, i'm still against this practice for<br>
reasons previously expressed but yet unaddressed.)</blockquote><div><br></div>I'll tell you, either in person or on the mailing list, as you prefer. �And I keep a record on Toodledo of all the books I've either lent out or been lent. �Currently, two economics books out for a friend to finish a paper. ��I realize you don't know me, but the last time I was told I had something and couldn't find it, I spent over $100 and many months tracking down and replacing their Paul Pope collection. �They found the originals in the basement when they moved.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">It sounds as though your reasons are trust related. �I can understand that, but if you're really worried about people walking out with books and not returning them, the best solution is to have them in a locked room and only give out the key to people you know will give them back.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Besides which, what motivation would I have for not telling you that I had a particular book? �It would be wrong for me to take something that wasn't freely given, and it would be just as wrong to lie about the having of it afterwards. �My personal integrity is worth more to me than a $15 paperback.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Will.�</div>