melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2020-12-11 09:45 pm
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Ethics Poll

If you checked out a library book of crochet patterns, and it was translated from Danish to American and therefore once every ten pages or so gets its single crochet and double crochet and treble crochet mixed up, is it ethical to write the corrections into the book for the next person to use the library book, once you are 100% sure you have it right?

Asking because reasons.
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sylvaine: An open book, its pages spread, sat on another open book, with shelves full of books in the background. ([gen:fami] libraries are my first love)

[personal profile] sylvaine 2020-12-12 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
As someone also working at a public library but in Germany, I'm pretty sure we *have* books we have fixed like this. I see zero reason why this shouldn't be ethical. But I'm not at all precious about the supposed sanctity of books, anyway!
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