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2012-12-06 02:13 3215182 Anonymous (shoplifting.jpg 450x301 35kB)
So, do you shoplift books, /lit/? If yes, how are you doing it?

5 min later 3215202 Anonymous
torrents google e-reader

10 min later 3215229 Anonymous
>tfw the only e-books you can get for free are in english

13 min later 3215241 Anonymous
I shoplifted John Ashbery's Collected Poems out of spite because I had to pay £70 for an (untorrentable) textbook. Then I felt bad because I looked at the back of the book and it said "supported by the arts council" and I also happen to enjoy reading it enormously. All in all, just buy it.

20 min later 3215284 Anonymous
I suppose the temptation rises when one has no money to buy "that awesome edition of a book".

20 min later 3215286 Anonymous
I steal from Whole Foods to make smoothies

23 min later 3215297 Anonymous
i stole two latin books because i would have gone hungry if i didn't

26 min later 3215314 Anonymous
I'm an expert on it. I've stolen more than 200 books (no joke) I have like 5 ways of doing it. Of course you gotta take off the alarm first. You can just put it inside your bag when you stand on your knees (like watching books that are too low) or you can go away with it on your hand like its yours (it works) Shit is easy as fuck, all you need is awareness and to be chill. Once i stole 9 books on a day (two sessions, one of 5 and one of 4) AMA. PS. Not natural english speaker so excuse my english.

28 min later 3215322 Anonymous
It would be so easy to shoplift from my local bookstore. They do take your bag when you walk in, but they have no cameras or those scanner things and it's not like the employees can be everywhere at once. So all anyone would have to do is wear something extra baggy or go with a woman with an oversized purse. But doing that myself would be a dick move. They're really nice and know me on a first basis.

30 min later 3215340 Anonymous
>>3215322 derp. *First name basis.

36 min later 3215365 Anonymous
What the fuck is it with you people and stealing books?

39 min later 3215376 Anonymous
It just feels wrong to pay shitloads of cash for a book whose writer died decades ago. And no, you can't download everything. Shoplifting books sounds like the healthiest version of shoplifting, anyhow.

41 min later 3215383 Anonymous
>>3215376 Then someone else has to pay. You can find books extremely cheap if you know what you're doing. You don't have to buy everything new. I just don't get you guys sometimes.

42 min later 3215388 Anonymous
>>3215229 what?

44 min later 3215398 Anonymous
Yes. The big used bookstore around here has rape prices for their books and in spite of having a bag check it's trivial to steal their shit especially now when wearing a big coat isn't conspicuous.

46 min later 3215403 Anonymous
>>3215182 Would never do. I'm a writer and have more respect for us than that. Don't download shit for free unless I've owned a hard copy at some point either.

47 min later 3215405 Anonymous
>>3215403 lel 0/10

48 min later 3215408 Anonymous
>>3215383 not really a lot of stores actually account into advance stolen merch, and secondly it would just bring down their profits by like twenty bucks they're not going to take it out of someone's paycheck i realize this only holds true if few people shoplife

50 min later 3215415 Anonymous
>>3215408 I also only steal on big stores. FIGHT THE POWER

50 min later 3215417 Anonymous
>>3215229 Is it your first day on the Internet?

51 min later 3215422 Anonymous
>>3215376 It makes it easier to shoplift when you realize that used bookstores originated the Gamestop model of paying pennies on the dollar for used merch and then selling them at a ridiculous markup. That and the faggots from those bookstores at the library sales who scan everything so they can find rare books and price gouge on ebay and amazon.

1 hours later 3215447 Anonymous
My method: Take book. Check it for anti-shoplifting tag. If it has one, shake it out or take it out. Then, take it to the bathroom. My local bookstore has those alarm things that stand by the doors by the bathroom. If nothing goes off, then odds are it's good to take. In the bathroom, I stuff the book into a hidden pocket in my bag. Leave bathroom. Leave bookstore. Enjoy book.

1 hours later 3215453 Anonymous
>>3215447 What will you do when they make you check your bag in at the entrance?

1 hours later 3215462 Anonymous
>>3215447 If they have a bathroom inside they deserve to be robbed.Good job pal.

1 hours later 3215465 Anonymous
>>3215453 I guess they don't.

1 hours later 3215468 Anonymous
>>3215453 No bag checks at the entrance. Literally you can just walk in with a huge-ass bag and they don't say a word.

1 hours later 3215469 Anonymous
>>3215422 B-but my local used bookstore is run by a nice man named Robert, who will search his private collection for books on subjects I tell him I'm studying, and recommend me new books based on my old purchases.

1 hours later 3215476 Anonymous
>>3215468 lel too easy. That's how it always starts but eventually they'll institute a bag check policy or continue eating that theft loss.

1 hours later 3215477 Anonymous
>>3215469 You just don't shoplift those people, for fuck's sake.

1 hours later 3215486 Anonymous
>>3215453 Just walk out with the book under your arm like you own it. If nothing goes off, how can they prove that it's not your book?

1 hours later 3215490 Anonymous
>>3215486 This works better than what you think. They wont risk themselves

1 hours later 3215497 Anonymous
>>3215490 Exactly. I wasn't being sarcastic. If they have a bag check, and no bathroom, I just check it for the shoplifting tag, take it out if there is one, and walk out.

1 hours later 3215501 Anonymous
>>3215497 I know, i made that comment for people wanting to learn.

1 hours later 3215504 Anonymous
>>3215486 U r 1 cheeky cunt m8. But you're right and it works just as well at grocery stores with a shopping cart full of groceries.

1 hours later 3215519 Anonymous
>>3215477 Maybe your local used bookstore owner would be similar to Robert if he didn't have his shop stolen from.

1 hours later 3215526 Anonymous
>>3215182 >Go to harvard bookstore >reads sign over fiction section >"For Burroughs, Bukowski and Kerouac: See store associate" >Sees store associate >Yo, what's up with the Burroughs, Bukowski and Kerouac? >Store associate: Oh, we keep that shit behind the counter... those get stolen all the fucking time. >lol'd

1 hours later 3215534 Anonymous
I've stolen a few hundred or so from chain bookstores and that's not the most moral thing to do but I still would never steal from a locally owned place, just seems fucked up to me.

1 hours later 3215541 Anonymous
i'd rather have people shoplifting books and getting educated than shoplifting 40's and aerosols

1 hours later 3215542 Anonymous
>>3215534 The only moral law to follow.

1 hours later 3215548 Anonymous
>>3215541 There's nothing better than stolen malt liquor to go with your stolen books. The local liquor stores sell OE for damn near $5 around here, fucking jaundiced jews.

1 hours later 3215558 Anonymous
>>3215548 how do you steal alcohol? I only combo my books with Chocolate.

1 hours later 3215562 Anonymous
>>3215534 Who do you think gets blamed for that when they take inventory? You're fucking over the staff that works there.

1 hours later 3215580 Anonymous
>>3215558 I usually go when there are kids around making noise and walk back to the cooler, throw a 40 in the pocket of my hoodie and walk out like they didn't have what I want.

1 hours later 3215586 Anonymous
>>3215562 I've worked at a barnes and noble before and the managers do get pissed when someone lets a guy walk out the front door with like ten books but there was a lot less theft than i expected and no one got in that much trouble for it. It could be anyone's fault by the time we get around to doing inventory which isn't very often.

1 hours later 3215587 Anonymous
>>3215558 >>3215548 You guys have it all wrong. Stolen literature should only be enjoyed with candied yams and t-bone steak in a stolen dish.

1 hours later 3215588 Anonymous
What happens if you get caught? Wouldn't that be sort of awkward?

1 hours later 3215596 Anonymous
You guys are pathetic..

1 hours later 3215597 Anonymous
>>3215588 Oh yeah, it sucks. You can be civil and deal with it and most times they'll just ask you to pay for it and leave or you can book it the hell out and never come back. I've had experiences with both.

1 hours later 3215599 Anonymous
>>3215588 You just don't get caught if you are as good as me.

1 hours later 3215606 Anonymous
I steal copies of Kant's texts on normative ethics for irony

1 hours later 3215610 Anonymous
Everyone has their vices, some people drink or shoot heroin and that's their thing. I just really like the rush of getting a good book for free

1 hours later 3215613 Anonymous
I suppose you can just play dumb. Exit the place wearing headphones and listening to music. If they catch you, act like you were absent-minded or something.

1 hours later 3215614 Anonymous
>>3215588 Until the vicious hipster behind the counter tackles you, lays down on the floor beside you and cries to make a statement on violence in the rat-racing umbilical cord that is Corporate America.

1 hours later 3215616 Anonymous
>>3215606 And no I don't steal books because the odds of a large bookstore having a book I needed, a book that's not in the public library and a book that I can't download and put on an e-reader is slim

1 hours later 3215627 Anonymous
>>3215596 If I really wanted to be pathetic I could just steal books from the library. Now that is child's play.

1 hours later 3215629 Anonymous
>>3215616 You wish you had a library as big as mine

1 hours later 3215630 Anonymous
>>3215588 I didn't get caught for the first couple years of doing it. I just got a little too cocky one day and didn't check my surroundings and an employee saw me take a book and confronted me as I was leaving. I just sort of just handed him the book back and left and nothing ever came of it.

1 hours later 3215637 Anonymous
>>3215629 Huh? personal library? If you're going to post non-sequitur brags about your collection show it

1 hours later 3215640 Anonymous /lit/ plain sucks tonight, I see
>>3215182 no, because I am not a pathetic excuse from a human being >do you even library

1 hours later 3215641 Anonymous
>>3215630 Happens to the best of us. You start getting a little too big for your britches and before you know it you are having to explain to the clerk why your waistband is stuffed with paperbacks.

1 hours later 3215642 Anonymous
>>3215616 Lucky you. It sounds like either your taste is pretty pleb or you just have the most patrician of public libraries in your area, though.

1 hours later 3215643 Anonymous
>>3215637 >implying it's a personal library

1 hours later 3215650 Anonymous
>>3215643 No, inferring >big as mine

1 hours later 3215651 Anonymous (what the fuck am i reading.jpg 640x360 69kB)
>stick it to big stores >down with capitalism This in spite of the fact that the big stores have immensely better selection, service, atmosphere and help the book industry and authors grow by selling more books. Not that I'm surprised, our culture is having a serious ethics crisis. All people can think about is how you can get more for nothing.

1 hours later 3215652 Anonymous
>>3215642 As long as you live near a decent college that shouldn't be too hard.

1 hours later 3215656 Anonymous
I shoplift Tao Lin books everytime I see one. I feel i'm doing the world a favor by not letting them waste money on such filth.

1 hours later 3215660 Anonymous
>>3215651 >This in spite of the fact that the big stores have immensely better selection, service, atmosphere hm not really on any of these points. Small stores will track down what you need which covers those three points in a book store, even a large one, what you see is what you get, if you want something just a bit different it probably isn't there and you're fucked. However nowadays amazon so whatever

1 hours later 3215666 Anonymous
>>3215642 fucking >>>/mu/

1 hours later 3215668 Anonymous (N1vcM.gif 245x225 509kB)
>>3215519 Why is this poster having a conversation with himself? Oh that's right, its gook lin, and this entire thread is him advertising as usual, reported. I want this fuckhead gone.

1 hours later 3215670 Anonymous
>>3215656 Scan his books if you really want to stick it to him. Supposedly he gets really butthurt over that.

1 hours later 3215673 Anonymous
>>3215650 Fine. You inferred something retarded and then you implied the retardation in a post. >big as mine does not necessarily say that the library literally personally belongs to him

1 hours later 3215677 Anonymous
>>3215673 It's not retarded because in no way did I suggest that my public library is insufficient for my needs so why would I wish a larger one as of now? No relation to my point at all.

2 hours later 3215693 Anonymous
I think the only book I actually bought as a minor was Steal This Book just for the irony.

2 hours later 3215702 Anonymous
>>3215670 >>3215670 isnt one of his books called after shoplifting?

2 hours later 3215703 Anonymous
>>3215677 Check the post number of who I'm replying to. I wasn't talking to you, and what the fuck are you going on about? I didn't even say you wanted a bigger public library. Fucking 4chan.

2 hours later 3215709 Anonymous
>>3215702 Shoplifting from American Apparel? But I assume the title is making some kind of different point.

2 hours later 3215723 Anonymous
>>3215703 You replied to me replying to someone else then, guess what, we're all anonymous so if you're going to jump in halfway and complain when people assume you're the same person use a tripcode.

2 hours later 3215729 Cool guy
>>3215723 Fuck you retard

2 hours later 3215737 Anonymous
>>3215723 It's not that hard to contrast different posters. Come on.

2 hours later 3215779 Anonymous
>>3215709 No, he describes shoplifting from American Apparel, and getting caught. Have you even read any of his stuff? He has a humurous blog post on Shoplifting from American Apparel being stocked in American Apparel, and how he'll write a new piece called Shoplifting Shoplifting from American Apparel from American Apparel (and a description of its possible contents).

2 hours later 3215796 Anonymous
>>3215779 Sup Tao. What would you do if I stripped the DRM of all your ebooks and shared them on /lit/?

2 hours later 3215801 Anonymous
>>3215422 My brother does this for a job lol. i don't need to steel books because of him; he just gives me books he got for dollars.

2 hours later 3215804 Anonymous
>>3215796 pretty chill about the free marketing, thanks

2 hours later 3215833 Anonymous (5.png 970x435 752kB)
>>3215796 Tao has a distinct online voice that is nothing like mine. You seem to have confused /lit/'s tongue-in-cheek take on him with something more resembling /mu/'s joel (deadmau5), rather than cute postmodern autism. Proper board etiquette is to lurk before posting.

2 hours later 3215839 Anonymous
I like buying books though. I like having physical objects which I have earned through my own labor.

2 hours later 3215871 Anonymous
>>3215422 This, I only ever shoplift from large companies which obviously price gouge the fuck out of everything. That said, I did once consider grabbing a really amazing textbook from a local bookstore once because I didn't have the money to buy it. I'm glad I didn't.

2 hours later 3215873 Anonymous
>>3215839 >2012 >still having a commodity fetish They got you good son.

2 hours later 3215886 Anonymous
>>3215839 stealing is your own labor, and its a risky one. Feels good man.

2 hours later 3215915 Anonymous (1326184084792.jpg 169x213 15kB)
>>3215839 >my nigga >>3215873 >looter, also confirmed for negro

2 hours later 3215918 Anonymous
Good to know I'm not the only one who doesn't steal from local places

2 hours later 3215919 Anonymous
>>3215915 >Holds respect for the morals which help globalist capitalists >Is racist Make up your mind.

2 hours later 3215926 Anonymous
>>3215915 I have been called many things but never has anyone gone as far as calling me a filthy fucking ape. I wish I could track your faggot ass down so I could fucking kill you for calling me a subhuman mayate.

2 hours later 3215942 Anonymous
>>3215926 >mayate This is an English imageboard. Fuck off, spic.

4 hours later 3216163 Anonymous
>>3215651 >big stores have immensely better selection, service, atmosphere and help the book industry and authors grow by selling more books go to bed Charles Barnes corporate stores are not ethical, and it would be easy to argue that they are less ethical than a poor student (or rich clyde) stealing books

4 hours later 3216173 Anonymous
>>3215919 global capitalism is super racist though

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