Yes but it was an accident and IIRC I eventually returned it

>>25065499
I stole books from everywhere, when I was a teenager.

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>>25065501
How did you feel

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>>25065499
I bring them all back because I'm afraid of the law

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Kek

>>25065499
I did once from the school library as a kid. It was a book on Greek mythology. Little late to give it back now though

>>25065499
When I was 8 I stole a Captain Underpants book from the school library by accident. It was so embarrassing that I still remember exactly how it happened.
>take book home with me to read (since there's better shit to do than read during school breaks)
>have a minor obsession with 'small' rooms at the time (basically just walk in closets), so decide to read it there
>also don't want people to know about this for some reason
>brother enters the room with the walk-in closet I chose to occupy and starts using the TV in there, so I just sit and wait it out
>eventually piss myself after like an hour of this and rush out, leaving the library book there
>completely forget about it due to the whole pissing myself thing, and get shit from the librarian for months until I find it about half a year later
That's about it though, because I'm not poor and don't go to the library.

>>25065501
I also ''stole'' a book by accident once, it was the same book I already had in my bag, so I was comparing them, then I distractedly put the new one in the bag. Luckily the alarm didn't go off when I exited the book store, I guess you can just steal books and there's no alarm? dunno

>>25065499
Steal is a strong word. Forget to return? Sure.

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>>25065645
You need picrel to protect your books

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In middle school there was this book reading competition/club between all grades (for instance 8th grande competing with other 8th graders and so on, but everyone was involved).
Every class was split in groups of 3-4 and each group assigned a book to read (all sourced from the local library), during the day of the competition you were supposed to answer questions related to the plot of the book and beat the other teams in speed and completeness.
Anyway to cut long story short I didn't even read the book and I just forgot to return it after the competition. In my defense I can only say that nobody cared to check or ask if anyone returned them so yeah. This was like 14+ years ago.
So I just erased its existence from my mind and it somehow disappeared for years until it resurfaced just recently among other old shit that's kept for no reason at all so now I have to make up random scenarious in my head of what it would look like to casually return it
>Hey here's a book from your library that I took 14 years ago haha
I can't even pass it for a random book I want to gift to the library because it has all their markings still intact for identificaiton.

I obviously don't plan to read it (it's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) but as you can see I probably can't even return it (despite wanting to) so it will torment me for the rest of my life as I'm stuck with it forever. Fucking hate it, but I guess it doesn't count as stealing in the conventional sense of the word.

>>25065499
Oh yeah, stole one from the university library during covid. You couldn't take any book home back then.

Walked with the book through the gates and it beeped. The janitor came to me, who is actually my homie and I said: you didn't see anything.

Never returned it, it belongs to me.

>>25065953
cant you just go in there and stick it on a shelf and leave? the librarian will find it and put it back in the system thinking it was just tucked away somewhere

I stole Thus Spake Zarathustra to protect the innocent

Why would I do that? I have a library card :(

Yeah my GED study book because it would have cost like $100 otherwise. Nigga I'm 27 years old and haven't finished high school and it already costs $100 to take the exam, you think I have another $100 for the study book?

>>25065499
no

>>25066047
Jesus said: borrow, do not steal.

>>25065499
My friend used to steal so many books in the 90s when there were no cameras anywhere. He also had sex with his fat hairy gf in the library dozens of times.

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>>25065499
Not a library, but a college
>be visiting a local college for an open day
>used to do art back in the day so I visit the art department just to look around
>notice a little side room with a bookshelf inside
>"ah this must be where they keep their art books! let's see what art students are reading"
>It's up to the ceiling, wall to wall, 3 layers of books deep, thousands of books
>start reading the titles
>"wait.... why are art students reading....
>Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian Wars
>Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
>Aristotle Metaphysics
>Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica"
>Realize this is not the art-book collection... this is the art-materials collection!
>They're going to cut these books up and glue them together to make modern art like pic related
>Start cramming as many antique books into my bag as I can
>There's books from the early 1800's, leatherbound, pristine condition, 1st editions, etc
>Get out with as many as I can carry

Everyone who I've told this story to has looked at me like some common thief.
I'm not a thief, I didn't steal these books, I SAVED them. These books would have been callously destroyed by art students who wouldn't recognize a vintage Everyman if it slapped them face.
My only regret is that I didn't carry a bigger bag at the time for which to have taken more.

>>25066183
I saved a bunch of outdated phone books from a building to be demolished. Couldn't carry them all but only the library has a copy these days.

>>25065499
Never.

Big box bookstores on the other hand

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>>25065499
Isn't that what piracy is for? I feel awkward bringing it up in a place like this.

>>25066217
downloading pdf's is so trivial it's hardly even worth considering it as stealing

>>25065755
theoretically how do you disable this. I've always thought of taking a thin razor and making a slice that breaks the path

>>25065499
I knew drew a credible imitation of a Mr Men book called Mister Bastard and then snuck it in to the children's section. nunawading library, Melbourne, mid 80s

>>25066235
just take it off

>>25065499
I stole all four volumes of Manu Larcenet's Blast. I regret nothing.

>>25066183
This is a rare situation where stealing is virtuous.