Neurotic, Trivial Question of Great Personal Importance

Sure!!

We do it all the time (stock up on library CD's and sometimes books for sozlet before taking a trip), a bit nerve-wracking but no disasters yet.

Go for it!

You will burn in Hell for eternity ! ! !

Which doesn't mean you're not a nice woman.

As long as you don't lose or damage the books, you should be fine. And even if you do, it wouldn't be a disaster- you may have to pay to replace the book, but that's not too harsh.

Library Policemen are no longer authorized to shoot to kill. I think they just use Tasers nowadays.

Dont take them.

This will force you to go on a meandering search of the place you stay for that out of the way, back alley type, secondhand book store where you will discover a treasure trove of literary classics....and a small but select group of bibliophiles including one young (ish) man whos countance you find diasarmingly attractive and intelligent.........

Be still my pounding (Holiday fantasy romance) heart

Noddy- When I read this post, the first thing that came into my mind was the label on bedding...............DO NOT REMOVE THIS LABEL, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW!

Noddy dear, you strike me as a very careful person. Barring some wild eyed mugger accosting you for your library book, I doubt that there would be a problem. Take a book to the Big Apple, and enjoy!

Oh, go crazy! Take the book and live life on the wild side!

Personally, I've taken library books out of the state and out of the country. I'll wager that the contract with the library only states that you'll return the books undamaged and in a timely manner. It surely doesn't mandate where you may or may not take them during the time you have them in your custody.

And even if it does, it's only illegal if you get caught...

I am not an attorney, but I believe that books are not covered under the Mann Act!

I can't remember where it was, but one library that I frequented in the past used to give a longer return time during the summer. The idea was, that if you were going away for the summer, you could take along books that you could return when you came back.

Oh, good grief. I would even let Noddy take my two rarest Heinlein books across state lines.

My little wings are flap-flap-flapping--image to evoke falcons, not incipient angels. Actually, I'm flap-flap-flapping more like a wren than a falcon.

I now own a pair of white linen trousers--although I have yet to eat a peach while wearing them.

Emboldened by assurances that malign fate (being busy elsewhere) is probably not going to zap my luggage, I just may abandon another childhood taboo.

Soz--

If a supervised two, three, four year old can manage...

Set--

Burn in hell? While you're confiscating diverting reading material right out side the "Abandon All Hope" arch?

Equus--

Have you priced books lately?

Dadpad--

I had a wild period of self-indulgence last month and my To Read Cache is stacked as well as shelved. I have no room for wild abandon on that bookcase. Romance between the treasure shelves will just have to wait.

Phoenix--

Your confidence heartens me.

Blacksmithn--

Your outlook is practical. Murky, swirling, emotional depths just aren't your cup of tea.

Roger--

I spurn your bedraggled Heinlein paperbacks. I have my own bedraggled Heinlein paperbacks.

Thanks all.

Might I add this caveat: only if you don't read in the tub.

That's what magazines are for.

DrewDad--

Advice noted, but I no longer read in the bathtub. I use the time for contemplation/medication/instensive scrubbing.

Go for it!

Live a little!


And, while you're at it, go bend, fold, spindle and mutilate some goddamn smegger....and take THAT tag off your mattress!

Dlowan--

I just removed a semi-prestigeous tag from a new shoulder bag. I am a woman of substance, not a passive billboard.

That so doesn't count!

There are no rare Heinlein books.

Roger, I grok in your fullness.

Information wants to be free, so keep a close eye on the little buggers, in case they try to escape.

What was the Heinlein Novel which had a small glimpse of thousands of Chinese settlers through a gateway between Earth and some unknown planet?

Neurotic, Trivial Question of Great Personal Importance
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