Woman won’t return ‘pornographic’ children’s book to public library
Hmmm…tough call. A woman who is offended by a certain book, takes the book and pays retail price for them. The library threatens to sue, they don’t want the money, they want their books back.
Tax dollars support a library, don’t they have to answer to the people? Plus, given that the woman paid retail value for the books, can’t the library re-buy them at wholesale and they’d be ahead? Doesn’t everybody win?
Unfortunately, I still don’t think you can knowingly steal from a library, even if you do pay for the books.
JoAn Karkos was “horrified” by the contents of It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health. Instead of burning the books, which she describes as “pornographic,” the Maine mother borrowed copies from two local libraries and refused to bring them back.
“Since I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents, I will not be returning the books,” Karkos wrote in a letter the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries last month, according to the Associated Press. She enclosed a check for the MSRP of the book.
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1. prescott
September 18, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
What an idiot. It’s not just about her paying for the book, but also the administration time for the library to determine the book is not going to be returned, processing her payment, re-ordering the book (if it’s even still in print), assigning the book a new bar code, etc., etc., just because this prude has a giant stick up her ass.
And I think it’s the same as why a store will prosecute for stealing a stick of gum — if she’s allowed to get away with it, a whole band of nuts might descend on the library and start disposing of books at will. My tax dollars pay for the local library as much as theirs, some select group should not determine what material it does and does not carry.
Wonder what the reaction from her would be if I did the same thing with the library’s copy of the bible? After all, it contains graphic murder, drunkenness, prostitution, and war.