Jackie notes: Not returning a borrowed book--talk about deadly sin!
In former days I liked to share my books as I did my friends.
Then, as years passed I decided I was sick of not gettting back books I'd loaned in good faith ... so I took action.
I wrote post cards asking for return of my tomes. (Everyone knows reading a Post Card is fair game so even the postman knew he had a book "thief" on his route!)
Some books were returned ... with profuse apologies in some cases (I wrote Post Card thanking them) and with huffiness in others -- I don't miss the latter folks!
For the truly recalcitrant borrowers I sent padded brown SAS-Envelopes and retrieved all but a few!
The most flagrant case of booknapping was one person who had the unmitigated gall to turn in a bunch of books to the Library Fund Raising Book Sale where I discovered two missing treasures with my name, bookplate and telephone number in them.
I paid the ransom!
Should I ever encounter that person agin I shall take pleasure in cutting that person dead!
The gender of the booknapper has been disguised to avoid starting a bruhaha about whether the worst offenders are men or women.
