Discussion:Care for a Library Book

This is a great article!

I agree with Difu Wu, this is a great article! Support featuring.

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It is a shame that there is a requirement for this article.

--common sense and common decency is not that common

Don't read in the bathtub??? Don't use a hair dryer while taking a bath either.

Do people these days really lack that much common sense or carelessness taught by their parents, to need a set of steps of how not to destroy someone else property ?

I've lost all faith. Our country is doomed.

I agree with 41.222.49.74. It's well written but a shame that it needs to be said.

Right on 68.10.197.146. This is yet another example of a completely frivolous article on WikiHow. What kind of idiot does not know that a book gets wet in the rain or in the bathtub, and that getting wet is bad for a book? Why not add another tip: "don't toss library books from the tops of skyscrapers as this could damage the book"

It's unfortunate that everyone who thinks this is a great article probably needs to be told how handle a library book. I'm surprised you all figured out how to turn your computer on, let alone log onto the Internet.

What a load of rubbish. Borrow the book, open it, read it, return it. How simple is that??

this page is a joke, right?

more proof that librarians are anal

Not everybody got brought up with all the skills you take for granted. Some kids are going to be self-taught. Don't you remember being at the age where you did things on automatic? If some wise Wiki told you beforehand why you shouldn't take take a book in the pool, you might remember.

And God forbid someone isn't from here already and needs the article on "How to Check Out a Library Book," because every adult American has had a library card since they were a toddler, right?

"The obvious" isn't obvious to everyone. For example, I could criticize the poor punctuation and capitalization of some of these previous posts. Just because I'm a good speller and typist, with the skills to properly punctuate a paragraph, doesn't mean everyone else is. What's obvious to me isn't obvious to everyone else.

P.S. My use of "they" as a singular pronoun was done on purpose.

Fantastic article,loads of great advice and tipsx

really good!

So this one time I ran out of napkins and I was eating some pretty messy macaroni, so I just kind of wiped my face on this library book. Is that okay?

I rented books at public and school libraries. Though I didn't have time to read the books I've checked out or the fact the book is so long that I wasn't able to finish it and would plan to buy a copy of my own. I rented such books like Gone with the Wind, House rules, Desperaux, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, etc. and somehow I don't find them quite fun to read. For the past 15 years, I was told to read to myself; even when I saw subtitles at the bottom of the screen translating what the characters of a movie or tv show say. Now it's like I don't have to be told to read to myself anymore. I kept reading in my mind until Deaf like Me. Then during and after my daddy and I worked on it, I enjoyed reading out loud. In the past before Deaf like Me, I only read aloud children's books and not like chapter books. Nowadays whenever I see someone reading to themselves, I make such small chatter indicating what I would do if those situations were me. The books I get were never shown as damaged (except for a few pages of a couple books). I didn't know I could renew them until I found out a way. There was damage to the Gone with the Wind book and I payed the fine. Reading to myself is a bore now. Up to 2 years before I got kicked out by my old respite, I was told during the school months to sit and read a book for half an hour. I make it short by reading 15 minutes or less. A lot of people say that books are much better than the movies. Depending on the book and movie, I mostly liked both. I told my 5 friends that if I read to myself, then I just skim for words and not get the story, who's in the story, or what's going on. But when I read out loud, it's like watching a movie or a documentary in my head. Plus reading out loud helps me with my language learning. I paid a fine at the Natrona County Public library for a movie that was past due. Then to ensure it won't happen again, I go to WYLDCAT and I renew them. The only time I would read to myself is when I listen to an audiobook and follow along with the narrator. I did that once when I read "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" when I was trying to get the 100 years library card and I got the story and what's going on. I watched one of my favorite scenes in Matilda where the whole family was having dinner and watching TV. Then Harry (Danny Devito) noticed Matilda reading Moby Dick. Then he got in rage saying that dinnertime is family time. He finds books trash as he tore the pages of the book and Matilda tried to tell her daddy that it's a library book. He was so fed up with the reading and he forced her to sit up and look at the TV screen. Danny said in an interview on the DVD that he would read each chapter of the book based on the movie to his kids. Another one of my favorite scenes was when Harry told Matilda that she never set foot at the library and assumed she was 4 when actually she was 6 ½. Then he took her to Zinnia (Rea Perlman) and just before he went into their bedroom to ask her how old Matilda was, he went on saying "Gimmie that book!" and he threw it to the floor. As a kid, I was then told that I was gonna read a certain book and not just look at the pictures. I've never actually set foot to a public library until I was 9-10. Part of an answer to "Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you?" is that a book has a bunch of vocabulary words and stuff that helps you get better at reading. In my opinion, there is nothing you'd get from a TV that you can get from a book faster. And it's so that you'd point out such small markings like a period, exclamation mark, quotation marks, commas, etc. Mummy said back on November 4th, 2014 that the public library was full of homeless people. Cheryl Junge (A teacher I work with) knew how I felt on learning alternatives. She knows that when I hear myself read, I get what's going on in a certain book. Cheryl would write notes down and she would remember what she was doing and didn't need those notes anymore.