/lit/ - Literature

I used to squish my benis between pages before I returned a book. But then one day I realized that there may be others who do this, or maybe even EVERYBODY was doing it, so I stopped. I don't want my dick touching 100 dicks. That's gay.

>>16339900
People like you are the reason I use an E-reader

I used to go to the public library a lot in the early to mid 00s. I can't remember many weird stories. I went again a couple years ago, and some guy was watching anime.

I went to college again in the early 10s. There was a stereotypical fat nerd who was always in the university's library. He was always on 4chan, watching anime etc. He always talked to himself, too. A classmate thought he was weird, but he was based. Haven't seen him in five years. Wonder what happened to him

>>16339910
Its just skin. No different than turning the pages with my fingers.

>>16339935
My local library used to be popping every single day in the 00s, because lots of kids had no computers or internet at home and we would go there to play runescape together after school. I haven't been there in a decade though, I'm kind of afraid to check it out. I wouldn't be surprised if there were homeless people now. This town has degenerated an incredible amount since 2010.

homeless people everywhere

>>16340331
Same here.

I remember seeing the movie Phase IV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV_(1974_film)) on TCM when I was 7-8. Had no idea what the fuck was watching but found it very upsetting (it is an apocalyptic ant movie). After that I was always afraid to walk into the children's section of my public library because I would have to walk past a CD rack that had the game Sim Ant prominently displayed.

>>16339999

>go to library
>lookup some books
>nothing interesting never happens

>>16339868
I went and had a nice time reading short stories : )

>>16339868
>junior school
>go to school library everyday during lunch because i have no friends
>read cozy non-fiction and fantasy books
>librarian lets me read books from the teenager shelf
>librarian gives me a gift on my birthday, a notebook and nice pens
thank you librarian

>>16339868
i got one
>hang out in library all the time
>obvious homeless guy is always there, just getting out of the cold
>one day theres some cunt who's just answering phone calls non-stop, never looks at any books
>homeless guy goes right up to him
>leans way in on this cunt's personal space
>waits for eye contact
>in a stern measured voice "THIS. AINT. YOUR. FUCKING. OFFICE."
>cunt shuts right up without even fishing his call
>messes around on his laptop for a minute then leaves awkwardly
thank you homelesschad

>go to library
>search book
>check out book
>go home
Did that multiple times as well, tempted to do it again.

>>16339900
>>/lit/thread/S15558476#p15563827

>>16339868
back in 2014-2016, there was a random tanki online scene in my local library. kids from my neighbourhood would just stay for hours and play each other. Actually really comfy made a few mates.

I miss being able to go to my uni library. The book stacks with all the fiction were on the the same floors as all the study rooms, so they closed the floors down for the semester and I can't browse or sit and have a comfy spot to read

Honestly working in a library sounds very cozy: does anyone here have any experience in that? (preferably not an American, because: >>16340331)
I imagine it being a little hard mentally and physically, but would it really be this bad? It always seems to me like the librarians sit and do nothing most of the time, but I only ever go there, find the books I want (admittedly too often I find myself being too stupid to do that, and having to ask for help from the librarians - also I swear half of the books I borrow arent in the main part of the library, but in the part reserved for librarians), and immediately leave.

One time I went to the library, picked out a book I liked and went home with it. Later I returned and gave the book back.

>>16339868
I once forgot to ring up a book to my library card and walked out and the thing beeped and the nice lady waved me out when I looked scared. When I went home I realized I didn't actually ring it up. I could of stole the book but I'm nice guy and I took it back but I thought about keeping it because the book had 0 checkouts and no one would miss it. The main reason I took it back to be honest is that it was in french and I didn't realize it wasn't in english so I had no reason to keep it.

>>16339910
lol
>>16341785
Are you serious?
>>16343335
You should go back and give her gift.
>>16343345
lol
>>16343357
That's really beautiful.

>>16343370
My mother works in a school library, sounds pretty cozy. Order new books, keep track of what books are most popular, read stories to classes, make displays, improve outdated cataloging systems, occasionaly keep an eye on kids hanging out there between exams and after school, vet new books for appropiateness, help teachers pick out books for their classes, explain to admin why books shouldn't be arranged in size order. Not quite doing nothing all day, but definitely not the worst of jobs.
>>16343392
>you should go back
One of these days perhaps, although the flight would cost near a thousand euros

>>16343399
Yeah, indeed it does sound cozy - but Im not sure if I would want to put up with having to keep up with whats on top. Maybe a real or an uni library?

>attending city college
>have an hour between classes
>go to library to study
>librarians carrying on talking
>every fucking day
Infuriating. How did they not know people go in there to try and concentrate

>>16339868
happened to me a few years ago at Uni

>be me, autistic 19yo humanities student
>work in Uni library on the regular
>cozy September morning, 11 AM
>reading some reviews of academic publications
>when suddenly, a woman appears
>I noticed her before, but never had the courage to talk to her
>around 25yo, blonde curly hair
>she straight up looks through the bookshelf and says "hello" with a monotonous, shy voice
>then goes back to her place
>autism.aiff
>completely irritated and triggered by this incident
>decide to walk up to her place
>"hey"
>"hey"
>"so, what are you working on" I ask out of the blue
>"hm, just some methodology stuff, you know"
>at this point, the conversation was not yet beyond saving
>I could have asked her some more things about her work
>instead I just sperg out
>"okay then, have a nice day, good luck"
>"thanks, you too"
>see her regularly in the corridors after this incident
>always say hi
>she straight up ignores me
>tfw

>>16343741
cringed irl, I'm sorry anon, I hope you've recovered

>>16343766
Thanks anon, yeah, I'm better off today

Hope you have a good day

Through my angsty early twenties I used to fantasize that one day I locked the library does with chains and padlocks and I shot all the men inside and keep the women alive to rape them before eventually killing them too and then getting shot by the cops

Not even an American, don't know why I was so angry at other people

>>16339868
No stories really. In early middle school I would always finish my assignments early and the teachers would let me go hang out in the library for the rest of the class period even though we weren't really supposed to leave. I enjoyed that a lot more than any interaction I ever had with friends/classmates

I work for a library and it is very depressing, and often suicide appears to be more attractive than working in this job. One might imagine that working in a library entails having a quiet, spacious office in which to organize the library's inner layout, making sure books are ordered and delivered on a timely basis, overseeing new technology being implemented and so forth. I am 40 years old. For thirteen years now I have stood and sat at the front desk of a large urban library whose most loyal denizens are the homeless and the clinically insane. Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. N*ggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour. I thought I would be advising enthusiastic kids what to read next, or helping elderly peasants become introduced to the world of literature in order to enjoy their final years thanks to the offerings of high culture. Instead I stand silently and alone as my miserable colleagues discuss their boring husbands or browse facebook or holidays websites to look out for the cheapest package deals. I am forced to replace urine-stained seat cushions. Forced to "kindly" "usher" out the bums who vomit on themselves and the constantly wide-eyed middle-aged women who start to scream and talk gibberish at a rapid pace if I approach them and tell them we are closing up. What a pathetic life I lead. I imagined I would be like Larkin, like Borges, like the kind of refined, reserved kind of man whose job allows him an air of mystique and glum erudition. Instead I am no better than a janitor who has found himself at the till of a supermarket. In 2008 I had a brief sexual affair with a student girl who spent a month here as part of her training to become a library assistant. We screwed in the storage room several times a day. It was purely physical on her part but deeply emotional on mine. Eventually she realized she didn't want this kind of job and admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed and her less experienced. She is now working for a marketing company and is earning more than me despite being a member of a different generation. Please kill me. Please. Please. Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the n*ggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

>>16339868
>14-15 years old
>go to library with frens
>open book
>sex.txt
>we all look at it and laugh
>librarian gets angry and kicks us out
lol

>>16345443
This is kino, if this is real, seek help

>>16345443
Can you move to a more rural location? I bring my kids to the library and all the people who work there seem to like it. Hope you cheer up Anon and find meaning.

>>16345694
>>16345602
It's copypasta

>18
>Looking for a copy of the Nibelungenlied
>Ask the librarian
>"Oh, we have one!"
>Look for it in the German section
>Look for it in the Epics section
>Look at books selected for liquidation
>Look for it in every place that makes even a lick of sense
>Can't find it
>Next year she retires and we forget about it
>One day I climb up a ladder because I'm looking for something else
>Find it among other books that are grouped together because of their series (They're very old books)
>I write a letter about it to her

>>16343220
how many instagram likes did this get her?

>>16339868
I used to have sex with my girlfriend in the public library a lot. Like a lot. It was a very nice library, lots of natural sunlight, it had an upstairs and downstairs, and after school we'd walk there and go to the family bathroom and I'd bed her over the very large marble sink. In hindsight it was fucking crazy that we were doing that so often and so young, like 15-16. We even did anal quite a bit. I miss that girl.

>>16347074
This is the library

>>16339868
Had a library near my high school
eventually I became so socially inept and isolated I just did all my homework there and checked out books as I pleased. Granted its a pretty shit library, there was little to no proper selection. the buliding looked like shit, its old , and relatively dinky.

>>16345443
Yes, yes... go on.

>>16339868
>be me
>be in college library working on essay
>black man at computer next to me
>singing to himself - loudly
>I AIN'T GOT FAITH IN THESE WHITE SKINS
>I AIN'T GOT FAITH IN THESE WHITE SKINS
>I AIN'T GOT FAITH IN THESE WHITE SKINS
>decide that since the essay isn't due until next week I can work on it later

>>16343741
That honestly doesn't sound that bad wtf?

does anybody has stories about going to the library like /v/ has stories about going to gamestop and dropping spaghetti?

>>16345443
dear god mate
aren't there private libraries on your city/state? or uni libraries?
the state library in my city is not very different. some of the librarians are interns from the uni here and they're cute, though

>>16343357
Nice. We used to LAN Wolfenstein at my library when I was like 12.

>>16345443
tldr

Being weighed down by the frigid life of homelessness, I've often situated myself with my fellow contemporaries in the warmth of libraries.
Sometimes i shitpost, other times i read the abused books that my peers have left urine stained, if they've gotten past the allure of pornographic access through their phones or laptops or passing out in chairs

>>16349974
oh my god...... this thread is fucking depressing....

go to library they lack even basic bitch tier texts leave and buy them online instead

>>16345443
That's everyday behaviour for most people on the planet over the age of 30.

Everyone leads meaningless lives and working thankless jobs.

You're not alone anon.

>>16339868
they're called books, anon

>>16345443
This sounds like the main branch of San Francisco Public Library. I haven't been there in years. Its disgusting.

>>16347074
>have had sex plenty of times in my life
>never had any experience like that in my youth
I will never recover.

>>16339868
last time visited library in 2013 I think . Living in big liberal city, local library is full of mud kids and little niglets, noisy af, there was probably more floor space given to computers, large screen tvs and
shelfs of dvds and cds than actual books. Just outside the library there was always 'youth' hanging around offering to sell weed to random people.
I bought my first ereader kindle keyboard soon after that and never looked back.

>>16339900
>I don't want my dick touching 100 dicks. That's gay.
Oh boy I hope you haven't put benis in bagina.

Library on the black side of town looks like it's from Syria while the one on the white side of town is super nice

>>16339868
no but this made me realize when I was thinking about it how libraries changed for me over time

as a little kid:
>fun places of solitude where I can find almost anything and rent movies!!! (this was prior to netflix and using the internet)

middle school (netflix and the internet hit)
>barely used the library except for summer reading and renting movies, barely used school library literally cannot even remember it

high school (first iphones in full swing)
>mostly use school library to either meet up with friends after school or for club related reasons
>literally never checked out a book without it being related to our class literally going into the library to get books, did not use real public library

college (a few years ago)
>i HAVE to use literally every school library (i think there were 6?) in order to have a space to properly study, and for the computer labs
>sometimes use the library login to get research papers
>again clocked in so many fucking hours at literally every library doing either entire days of work in the computer labs or studying for full days at a time, sometimes with friends
>literally still know the quirks of every computer lab and which one to go to for what type of project
>used my local libraries for recreational reading again and started to love them, but would never actually spend time in them to read or study because the furniture sucks and there's too many kids and the computers are from the 90s.

and now I go monthly to the library just to rent books to read if not twice a month.

>>16339868
My autism might've activated again when I girl was giving me advances but I'm so dense I cant tell. I was waiting in line to enter a bookstore and check things out since I havent been there before, and there was this girl who was in front of me, looked kind of meek and shy, had glasses and was looking around a lot. I think I gave her my spot or something in the line or helped pick something up for her I dont remember but we had a brief interaction. She was checking back now and then smiling a bit looking at something and even giggled a bit but it sure as hell wasn't another guy or someone she knew but I brushed it off as her probably thinking about something in her head because Im a retard. When we went inside I saw her around but she was on the other side I think around fiction while I was looking at classics, Im in NYC so chances are slim but I want to try and go to that bookstore more often to see her again because even if this is all just in my head I want to try and have conversation about what she reads anyway. She wasnt absolutely gorgeous but was pretty cute and honestly thinking about it ideal gf material if she can cook and clean on top of a reading hobby.