My dad had lent several copies of the Hitchhiker's Guide to people and never got them back... so I bought a copy specifically to lend to him so he couldn't lend it to anyone else, and then knowing I'd never get it back I bought another copy for myself!

@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I've lost too many favourites to ever lend those out. Some disappeared without a request to borrow them so I even thought about getting glass fronted cupboards with locks!I sometimes have books I'll happily give away.

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art @reading@fedigroups.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social @books@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop@lemmy.world I stopped lending books when some returned looked like they’d been in a war zone. I mean, absolutely trashed, with no apology.