[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Lending Library?

[Will Sargent]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

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>   how will "we" know that you have a particular book?
> (for the record, i'm still against this practice for
> reasons previously expressed but yet unaddressed.)


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.

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.

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.

Will.
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