Ugh jesus, it's like the whitest person on earth showing you their new white-face routine.

All of these things are nails on a chalk board. For shame!

I write the filthiest imaginable poems about rape and incest and bestiality in sharpie between the lines in my library books. And I always have at least $1.25 in fines outstanding.

The horror! When I was 11 or 12 I used to extract an oath from my friends that they would NOT bend pages, break spines (!) or otherwise neglect/damage my books if they wanted to borrow them. I even demonstrated how to hold them properly...

Sadly some of them could not fulfill their promises... Still brings tears to my eyes! :(

I checked out a book in 2008. I found it, fallen behind my couch, two years later. I have yet to return it. I am terrified of whatever fines I may have. Now I just buy books used to avoid the library. My secret, pathetic shame.

@5, your maximum fine is just the replacement cost of the book. Maybe $25 or so, depending on the book. That's enough to send to collections, though, so you probably ought to take care of it.

Is this a title (and plot) of a Hump film?

@7: Ooo it should be!

Book spines are for breaking.

The one who says she breaks librarian stereotypes by dying her hair pretty colors is missing the point of shaming blogs.

@5 Same here. Me and the lady broke up and I simply lost track of the books when I moved out. I'm scared of what the fines are too. I don't even know where they are.

My own books, sure. Library books, never.

I consider library fines a form of charitable giving to support reading.

As an old and weak climber I frequently tear books in half so as not to carry the extra weight. This surprised my friend Larry.

a few years ago i came across a copy of "tales of a fourth grade nothing" from the redmond library that i had checked out in 1985 ... no, i'm not a hoarder, i honestly don't know how it went unfound for 25 years. i decided to do the right thing and bring it back, but they wouldn't even take it. it was older than their computer system, they had no means of checking it back in, so they just told me to keep it. i still have it, and it still makes me feel a little guilty whenever i see it on the shelf.

@Fnarf, you crack me up!