61 year old Japanese man arrested for stealing 1,100+ library books simply because he loves books - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Naaz;37588742]Nah, I have the same thi- [editline]8th September 2012[/editline] In seriousness, though, they feel nice in my room, even though I use Wikipedia for everything now.[/QUOTE] I love the smell when you open the book. That old paper smell, brings me back to childhood. Books will for me never be replaced by digital. [editline]9th September 2012[/editline] I mean like adventure books and stuff, not dictionaries and things you'll look up on the net. (With the exception of biographies)

[QUOTE=madnath619;37588739]Fuck this guy, in a few years, I'll have more than 1,100+ manga volumes and I'll not even steal them! Yes, I know he took books, but I rarely read books anymore, any of them I've been interested in I've already picked up.[/QUOTE] Nerd Alert.

[QUOTE=madnath619;37588739]Fuck this guy, in a few years, I'll have more than 1,100+ manga volumes and I'll not even steal them![/QUOTE] a true scholar, a rarity in these troubled times

[QUOTE=madnath619;37588739]Fuck this guy, in a few years, I'll have more than 1,100+ manga volumes and I'll not even steal them! Yes, I know he took books, but I rarely read books anymore, any of them I've been interested in I've already picked up.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=King Tiger;37588678]Sounds like a mental disorder to me.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=mac338;37599685]I love the smell when you open the book. That old paper smell, brings me back to childhood. Books will for me never be replaced by digital. [editline]9th September 2012[/editline] I mean like adventure books and stuff, not dictionaries and things you'll look up on the net. (With the exception of biographies)[/QUOTE]Yeah, don't separate me from my fiction books, I kill you. And if you so much as SCRATCH my hardbound copies of LotR...

[QUOTE=Naaz;37602287] And if you so much as SCRATCH my hardbound copies of LotR...[/QUOTE] ... you will crawl into a corner and cry?

Why did he steal them from a library? He could have just borrowed them and never returned them. They cap library fines at around £10.

[IMG]http://thedailycannibal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/seinfeld-library-cop.jpg[/IMG] "I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. **Rock was never my bag.* But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library…** Yeah, I know what you're thinking.** What's this guy making such a big stink about old library*books? *Well, let me give you a hint. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. *Maybe. *Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?* Doesn't HE deserve better?* Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. *This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! *Or, maybe maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies.* Well I got a flash for ya, party time is over."

[QUOTE=King Tiger;37588678]Sounds like a mental disorder to me.[/QUOTE] Sound like my kind of guy.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37590922]I have at least 2,000 books under my name at my house. I never give them or sell them off and I've been buying books since I don't even remember. Though a good portion of that number I received from my grandfather when he died. I have a terrible compulsion to buy books and I would guess that only a third of them I've actually read all the way through. Most of the time I read halfway until I find another book and start it.[/QUOTE] I'm like that as well! I'm such a bookworm me, but I would never steal books :v: I feel comfortable in my room the most because it's like a bloody library as it is, but I really do need to stop accumilating books because I haven't even read a third of them let alone half!