loaning graphic novels

[techvoodoo]

what do you do when you loan a graphic novel to a friend and she doesn't return it promptly, you write letters to the graphic novel on her facebook page.

 

dear watchmen comic, i miss you. i hope you're enjoying your trip to anna's house but please come home soon. your friend, guy

 

I even got a reply!

 

Dear Guy, i miss you too. things are so different here. it isn't like home, where its cold and the cat sits on me. Anna is nice, i like the way she delicately turns my pages and the way she looks in her purple glasses. She keeps me by her bed and reads me before she turns off the lights. She says i will be home soon, i hope so. Yours always, Watchmen Comic

 

watchmen, it's so good to hear back from you. i was beginning to wonder what had become of you. it's been so long since we've seen one another. i didn't know, was it something i'd done? i anxiously await your home comnig and when we will be reunited again. until then, guy

 

ok i thought it was funny. i hope she got the hint and returns the book soon.

[Chi Bamm]

Uhhhhhhh

 

You gonna

[TheLiamSturgess]

:winnah:

[techvoodoo]

i didn't learn my lesson after all the movies i've let people borrow and never saw again.

 

might be time to institue a no lending comicbook policy.

[DomUga]

I got a comic book lending policy. It is sorta like a library. One friend can only borrow 2 books at a time. Or we exchange book for book. I recently borrowed the first 7 Fraction Iron Man trades in exchange for my Frank Miller Daredevils.

[Gatchaman]

The last time I lent out a TPB it came back with a bent spine in the middle of book.

[Maccai3]

no one is allowed to touch my comics/TPB's

[Mac Man]

I let a colleague borrow my copy of Persepolis (complete with all of my annotations) and she lost it.

 

[John Grumbledook]

hope she didnt take it into the bathroom. Then you can never return it to Brentanos.

[shadroch]

When I lend a book or a movie, I do so with the expectation that I'll never see it again If its something I don't want to lose, I don't lend it.

[Waylander]

no one is allowed to touch my comics/TPB's

 

 

[chromium]

I make people fill out a card when they take one of my books home and email them three days in advance when the book is due back.

[inconceivable]

I make people fill out a card when they take one of my books home and email them three days in advance when the book is due back.

 

Do you do online renewals?

 

Dan

[chromium]

Case-by-case basis.

[inconceivable]

Case-by-case basis.

 

you probably have a dewey decimal system set up to keep track of the books you loaned out.

 

Dan

[999ghosts]

no one is allowed to touch my comics/TPB's

 

Yep! nobody, NOBODY touches my books (even the 50 cents books)

[Erndog]

I always cringe when I hear someone I know say something like, "I want to read the Watchmen, can I borrow your books sometime?" I just immediately change the subject... or tell them amazon has them at a great deal right now

[ElvistheSniper]

This is a great subject. I just lent my WD compendium book out to a friend that wanted to read up on it before the new season starts. So being a friend I lent it to him and sure as the company goes under.

 

And I don't have contact info for my friend.....Owell glad I got it at Amazon for cheap, but now I want to reread it

[dupont2005]

I had two Compendiums, one for loaning. I eventually sold it though. I get a lot of my trades used either from here, eBay, or Paperbackswap so I'm not too worried about loaning them out. Cheap and mild wear is how I like them. My absolute favorites I'll probably not loan out though. I don't like the thought of my Usagi slipcase set not being in my house

[ChrisInBaltimore]

Lending anything is always a challenge, but I'd imagine we all learned that at a young age. Heck, I remember lending video games to my neighbor and finding them years later in a pile of trash.

 

I don't mind lending books, but it is usually with the understanding I may never see it again. It's a risk you take.