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The video indicated that the binding for the book was being cut off. I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them sc
by iqster 15y ago
The video indicated that the binding for the book was being cut off. I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them scanned via this service, and returning them.
It is sad that many hundreds of thousands of hours have been wasted by students photocopying books :(
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them scanned via this service, and returning them. Now I'm curious, how much does a library charge for a lost book?
- dman 15y agoDont go down that road - please. If you "borrow" someones book you rob one person of the privilege of reading it in the future. If you pull the same stunt with a library book you potentially rob many people well into the future. For some reason libraries are very slow to replace lost books. I guess just knowing with good certainty that the book is actually gone for good rather than placed in the wrong section would be a tough nut to crack.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI wouldn't. But it's not like I'm the only person who would think of this. So, really - are lost book fines low enough to incentivize students to steal them, ship them to get scanned, and pay the fine? Especially in the case of required textbooks.
- jarek 15y agoMy alma mater charges a minimum of $40; standard books look to be $104: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/borrowing/sanctions.html http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/borrowing/sanctions.html
- billswift 15y agoThe normal fee is the cost of the replacement and a processing fee (University of Maryland and most of the public libraries I have dealt with). When I was at the university they would accept a replacement that you bought, but still charge the processing fee to get it back on the shelf.
- jahmed 15y agoAt the university library I work at its minimum $65 replacement charge depending on the actual replacement cost plus a $15 processing fee.
- eru 15y agoFrom my experience replacement value plus some extra fixed fee is common. So you might as well just purchase the book. That's cheaper.
- mahyarm 15y agoIt's alot quicker and less error prone to scan a stack of pages vs turning pages in a book.
- smackfu 15y agoOTOH, it does make it fairly attractive for 5 or 10 or 20 students to buy one copy and have it scanned.
- eru 15y agoYes. But you might as well get your book of some torrent site, then.