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Man 'edits' library books

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A 79-year-old Lake George man is in hot water.

Raymond Barber is accused of scratching out words in books from the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, substituting biblical phrases in the page margins, and writing "God is Enough" inside many covers.
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Satan is my sweaty meat-puppet

Make him pay for all the new books he wrecked. If I wrote 'Satan is my sweaty meat-puppet' in all the margins you bet your ass I'd be paying some hefty fines and buying some brand-spanking new books, too.
 
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Bottle or the Gun said:
Make him pay for all the new books he wrecked. If I wrote 'Satan is my sweaty meat-puppet' in all the margins you bet your ass I'd be paying some hefty fines and buying some brand-spanking new books, too.
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Well, yes but that's because you're a bad, lewd Satanist. You lack morals. This was a god-fearing man who merely wanted to spread the word and the Biblical morals.

Or something.
 
I get a lot of books from the university library here, and I just hate it when there are pages of underlined or highlighted material, with little margin notes intended to show how clever the previous reader was.
 
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Bottle or the Gun said:
Make him pay for all the new books he wrecked. If I wrote 'Satan is my sweaty meat-puppet' in all the margins you bet your ass I'd be paying some hefty fines and buying some brand-spanking new books, too.
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Much ado over that which means -- or, amounts to -- nothing. ;)
 
Bah, religious idiots.

I'd like to ask him, "Did you think you were doing God's will? Why didn't God do it himself then?"
 
Bikewer said:
I get a lot of books from the university library here, and I just hate it when there are pages of underlined or highlighted material, with little margin notes intended to show how clever the previous reader was.
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I do this all the time (But only when I own the book).

It's a double edged sword. I knew a guy at uni who underlined every single paragraph to help him remember, he got straight high disctinctions (and never got attacked by tigers too!). However the number of books I've got where the notes end in chapeter 3 is depressing.

I say white out. If that's not sufficient to restore the book, make him buy a new one.
 
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Iacchus said:
Much ado over that which means -- or, amounts to -- nothing. ;)
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Defacing public property is 'much ado about nothing'? Oh, that's right, you only follow those laws.... ;)

Kuroyume
 
Just re-read the article.

Over three hundred and seventy books in three years.

Who has the time to read that many? It can't just be a case of the man scribbling something everytime he read something incensing. He has to be deliberatly searching out books to deface.

I wonder what topics they were on and unfortunately the article doesn't say, did for example cooking books escape his ire?

On another note, it's pretty obvious that the guy's not the sharpest pencil in the jar. I mean who would think they'd get away with it in a library where they keep records of who borrows what? Guarantee it took less than 5 minutes detective work to track this master-criminal down.
 
It was easy to track him down....the library just accessed the Homeland Security database of people who check out library books.
 
Since he defaced books, he should have tattoo'd on his forehead "God is Hate!"

Fair is fair. . . .

--J.D.
 
I think it would be fun to write in the margins of books. "I like Libraries because the quiet lets me hear the voices in my head" and on the next page "Don't turn around". Or fill every open space and margin with the word "NO" or "I'm Sorry Laura" over and over. It would be more creative if done in crayon.

Cutting up iron-ons and tranferring them to the pages and some vacation photo decopage' would be fun. Varnishing all the pages together. Hollowing one out and leaving one spent cartridge in the concealed space would make the news, I think.
 
Bottle or the Gun said:

Hollowing one out and leaving one spent cartridge in the concealed space would make the news, I think.
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I've tried to make a 'book safe' previously. Dosen't work too well. You need some way to hold the pages together whilst you cut with a stanley knife, very slow and tedious. I've also tried using a drill press to remove the pages but you generally end up making a mess.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has a better idea for making these things. They are on my 'quintessentially cool object' list. Second only to a fire pole or a secret passage.
 
I did one as a kid. Used wood and c-clamps to hold and compress all the pages so the saw would cut like it was a solid piece. Also, make sure the clamps hold the pages in the same shape as the pages will be when the book is closed.
 
wittgenst3in said:

Over three hundred and seventy books in three years.

Who has the time to read that many?
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That's one book every three days. I would guess that I average somewhere around three books a week (depending on their size).

Given that the man is a pensioner he probably has more time to read than I do, so I don't think that the number is impossible.
 
I'm not sure that this is well known on this forum or not, but these religous kooks are proud of what they deface in library books.

Not only that: they are organized, and actually have guides that they distribute that give tips on the best ways to deface books.

Their favorite tool: the razor.

They just go in, slice at edge close to the binding, and remove the sheet, stuffing it in their pockets.

No tedius mucking about with markers are anything like that. Just a fast removal of pages of information they don't want others to read.

Following Carl Sagan's thoughts in Cosmos, what they are doing is the a lessor version of what the Xtians and Muslims did at the Library of Alexandria: doing destructive brain surgery on the Memory of Mankind.

In that regard, it's a Crime against Humanity.
 
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