I recently borrowed a book from the library only to get home and find that the very 2 pages i need for my research have been torn out. Personally, I do not understand why someone would do this, specially when there's 6 copies of this book available. I can only assume this person is extremely poor that they can't even afford to buy pen and paper so that they can copy the information that is so badly needed. I have also discovered that a wealthy academic man -Farhad Hakimzadeh- has found himself jailed for 2 years for "stripping pages out of ancient books". Once he has these priceless pages he then inserts them into he's own copy of the very same book and sells it for thousands of pounds. Hakimzadeh now has to pay £7,500 even tho he made £300,000 damages. These are 2 examples of vandalism to books that i find petty and inconsiderate to those who wish to borrow the book and the library who owns it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/17/british-library-damaged-books
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