HAZ Vandalism

SpiderLegs · Post by **SpiderLegs** » May 29 2014 1:09 pm

Need someone to confess. Checked out a hiking book from my local library here in Avondale and what do I see upon cracking open the book? Someone had written hikearizona.com on the first page. LNT applies to books as well. :SB:

chumley · Post by **chumley** » May 29 2014 1:14 pm

People from Avondale can read?
;)

SpiderLegs · Post by **SpiderLegs** » May 29 2014 1:19 pm

chumley wrote:People from Avondale can read?
;)

I'm just slumming it until I can move back to Phoenix next year. Do see quite a few ASU alumni t-shirts, license plate holders and bumper stickers out here. So to answer your question - no.

FOTG · Post by **FOTG** » May 29 2014 1:35 pm

@SpiderLegs

Someone had written hikearizona.com on the first page

That may be a part of Joe's guerrilla advertising/marketing campaign, he is randomly checking out books from various libraries across the state and writing Hikearizona.com in them...come on man catch up with the times, its the new rage...

Guerrilla marketing was originally a marketing strategy in which low-cost, unconventional means (including the use of graffiti, sticker bombing, flyer posting, etc.

Defacing a library book is low cost a little unconventional but highly effective, got your attention right?

chumley · Post by **chumley** » May 29 2014 1:40 pm

While I certainly don't condone the activity, it is not at all uncommon for people to write in books. I think it should be limited to books you own, rather than those that are checked out of a public library, but it happens a lot.

Here in the world I live in every day, the most fascinating historical manuscripts are those that have handwritten marginal notes. Often they expand upon the subject matter and enlighten the reader further than the original writings did. Modern scholars regularly study the notes and attempt to determine if they were written by the author, or another scholar later on.

There are books/studies/dissertations written exclusively on marginal notes in historical manuscripts. It's actually a fascinating subject of literary history.

SpiderLegs · Post by **SpiderLegs** » May 29 2014 1:41 pm

friendofThundergod wrote:Defacing a library book is low cost a little unconventional but highly effective, got your attention right?

Well to give the miscreant credit, they only used a pencil to deface the book.

Alston_Neal · Post by **Alston_Neal** » May 29 2014 1:55 pm

SpiderLegs wrote:
friendofThundergod wrote:Defacing a library book is low cost a little unconventional but highly effective, got your attention right?
Well to give the miscreant credit, they only used a pencil to deface the book.

Well then it wasn't really anyone here cuz we all use crayons.

FOTG · Post by **FOTG** » May 29 2014 1:56 pm

@SpiderLegs

they only used a pencil to deface the book

Oh well then you know there is a real simple solution to the problem right?

PatrickL · Post by **PatrickL** » May 29 2014 2:57 pm

I don't know nothin' 'bout writin' in no books at the libary.

But really, I don't. Try writing a reply in the book, then wait for a response.

Bradshaws · Post by **Bradshaws** » May 29 2014 4:18 pm

I admit it, it was me. I wrote in the book..... Wait, this was in Avondale?.?.... Disregard, wrong book :whistle:

CannondaleKid · Post by **CannondaleKid** » May 29 2014 4:45 pm

SpiderLegs wrote:Checked out a hiking book from my local library here in Avondale

What was the title? Did it relate to hiking?

chumley · Post by **chumley** » May 29 2014 4:54 pm

SpiderLegs wrote: Checked out a hiking book from my local library here in Avondale

CannondaleKid wrote:Did it relate to hiking?

:roll:

CannondaleKid · Post by **CannondaleKid** » May 29 2014 5:06 pm

@chumley Sorry, not typing what I was thinking... I meant to ask if it was specifically about hiking in Arizona. I'm still curious to know the title.

SpiderLegs · Post by **SpiderLegs** » May 29 2014 5:30 pm

CannondaleKid wrote:@chumley Sorry, not typing what I was thinking... I meant to ask if it was specifically about hiking in Arizona. I'm still curious to know the title.

It's "Best Loop Hikes - Arizona" by Bruce Grubbs. But the publication date pre-dates the existence of the library branch. Noticed that most of Avondale's older titles (more than 7-8 years old) are cast offs from other libraries. So it could have been anyone in the Phoenix metro area that did this.

sneakySASQUATCH · Post by **sneakySASQUATCH** » May 29 2014 6:51 pm

Might have been somebody who owned it wrote in it and donated?

SpiderLegs · Post by **SpiderLegs** » May 29 2014 7:35 pm

MtnBart01 wrote:Might have been somebody who owned it wrote in it and donated?

This is where I admit my nerdiness, it's pretty rare to see a donated book hit the library stacks. Can't quite explain it, buy you can tell the difference between a library book and what you can find at a bookstore.

SuperstitionGuy · Post by **SuperstitionGuy** » May 29 2014 8:34 pm

chumley wrote:There are books/studies/dissertations written exclusively on marginal notes in historical manuscripts. It's actually a fascinating subject of literary history.

Do you mean like this?
http://hikearizona.com/photo=2657

tibber · Post by **tibber** » May 29 2014 8:39 pm

@SuperstitionGuy
OMG!

Tortoise_Hiker · Post by **Tortoise_Hiker** » May 30 2014 8:34 am

@SuperstitionGuy

I was surprised to see that there.

KwaiChang · Post by **KwaiChang** » May 30 2014 9:39 am

chumley wrote:Here in the world I live in every day,

This 'splains alot about Chums.......actually speaks VOLUMES!

Where is "this world" and does anyone visit you there??

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