Book Lending Rules

There are rules to lending books.

1. If you want the book back, do not offer the book.
2. If you want the book back you must get them to want to read the book and ask you to borrow it.  With few exceptions I have not got back any book I have pushed on someone else.  With no exceptions, I have gotten a book back that was requested to borrow.

Books that I have lost, include the Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy, many of the Dune series, The Name of the Wind and many others.

If you ignore the first rule, don't cry foul, just go and replace your book.  I have lost few books to the first rule since I discovered it, but I still lose books because I do ignore it on occasion.  I don't lose my temper anymore, if it is a great book, I get another copy and I am happy that the other book has a good home.

1.a.  If you thrust a book on someone, they won't read it most of the time.  If they do read it, you get the book back more than not.