Is it OK to read Mein Kampf in public?

[Pickman's model]

Not yet, but it is in my peripheral vision, do you recommend it?

Very much so. It's a big long book, but a cracking read. And you can read it in public without people taking issue with it on the internet

 

[Pickman's model]

So, as a wannabe top Librarian yourself, how do you rate Mein Kampf?

943.08 or thereabouts, a common item in academic libraries

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got a PDF copy, and got bored after the first page. Downloaded it out of curiousity but it is a shite book.

 

[weltweit]

Very much so. It's a big long book, but a cracking read. And you can read it in public without people taking issue with it on the internet

Thanks, just been reading a summary and it sounds right up my street, just not sure I will be able to finish it before the library wants it back !!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

943.08

Dewey Decimal or some weird system used elsewhere?

 

[Pickman's model]

Dewey Decimal or some weird system used elsewhere?

That's dewey, yes

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's dewey, yes

A bit damp in the morning then?

 

[teuchter]

So, as a wannabe top Librarian yourself, how do you rate Mein Kampf?

Are you suggesting Pickman's is not a "top librarian"?

 

[Gromit]

That is a fucking disgusting thing to say. Take a warning.

It's a nazi, Reading mein campf in front of three white blond women (the Arian ideal).
I thought it an ideal opportunity to remind people how awful the nazis were with a bit of obscure trivia. That was all.
Please explain your interpretation?
Or is the mere mention of Joy Division (the inspiration behind the naming of the band Joy Division) prohibited?

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you suggesting Pickman's is not a "top librarian"?

He would be right to, I'm down doing the decent library stuff rather than leading the service towards a cliff

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Bloody hell. What have I started?

 

[Pickman's model]

Bloody hell. What have I started?

A clusterfuck

 

[Beats & Pieces]

In an ideal world reading 'Mein Kampf' in public would be fine, even though it is a highly problematic work. However, there is the fact of being aware of your surroundings and consideration (out of decency) for people around you. There are a number of books to which this applies.

 

[Gromit]

In an ideal world reading 'Mein Kampf' in public would be fine, even though it is a highly problematic work. However, there is the fact of being aware of your surroundings and consideration (out of decency) for people around you. There are a number of books to which this applies.

 

[teuchter]

He would be right to, I'm down doing the decent library stuff rather than leading the service towards a cliff

Are you suggesting you are a "decent librarian"?

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you suggesting you are a "decent librarian"?

I'm saying I don't run a library service

 

[mrs quoad]

The entire thing was a display of bullshit.

I feel as if there may be a hidden message in your op, Stan.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Bloody hell. What have I started?

Exactly what you set out to start.

 

[Idris2002]

One of my colleagues back in Halle had to read a book published in the Third Reich for a project he was involved in. Instead of getting it into his hand via inter-library loan, the local uni would only let him read it in a locked room while a security guard kept an eye on him.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

One of my colleagues back in Halle had to read a book published in the Third Reich for a project he was involved in. Instead of getting it into his hand via inter-library loan, the local uni would only let him read it in a locked room while a security guard kept an eye on him.

That may be more to deter book thieves than to deter Neo-Nazi's from reading. Rare book theft is a bigger problem than art theft. A friend of mine wrote his Master's thesis on prostitution in the old west. He was forever running to places getting permission to read materials that were kept locked away in rare book collections.

 

[Idris2002]

That may be more to deter book thieves than to deter Neo-Nazi's from reading. Rare book theft is a bigger problem than art theft. A friend of mine wrote his Master's thesis on prostitution in the old west. He was forever running to places getting permission of read materials that were kept locked away in rare book collections.

You may be right, but the set of "neo-nazis who want third reich books" and the set of "book thieves" are not necessarily exclusive in Germany.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You may be right, but the set of "neo-nazis who want third reich books" and the set of "book thieves" are not necessarily exclusive in Germany.

True. And probably not just in Germany.

 

[Pickman's model]

One of my colleagues back in Halle had to read a book published in the Third Reich for a project he was involved in. Instead of getting it into his hand via inter-library loan, the local uni would only let him read it in a locked room while a security guard kept an eye on him.

this sort of supervision no new thing, as this excerpt from lovecraft's 'fictional' report of the dunwich horror of '28 shows





the sequel too well known to describe in detail, suffice to say wilbur whateley's return when he tried to steal the abominable book led to his death.

 

[Idris2002]

Too many boy reporters running around, old chap.

 

[mrs quoad]

Standing in the photocopying room at work, I notice with some wetness that I am reading about Stanley’s struggle in public.

NB: that’s an autocorrect for wryness. Siri clearly knows something I don’t.

 

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Is that not normally reserved for reading in the commons?

Standing in the photocopying room at work, I notice with some wetness that I am reading about Stanley’s struggle in public.

NB: that’s an autocorrect for wryness. Siri clearly knows something I don’t.

You post on here with siri/voice stuff? You learn summat new...

I have dipped into our copy of mean kampf but really could not get into it. This reminds me many years ago I got a copy of maos little red book but now can't find it for love nor money.

 

[Sprocket.]

To get an idea of Mein Kampf, take four tins of alphabetti spaghetti, open them, throw them at the wall and try to make sense of it.
whilst ranting and biting the carpet.

 

[eatmorecheese]

My dad had a hardback copy in German, Gothic script. My granddad (so the story goes) found it in a sandbag during the war, somewhere in London. Long since lost.

 

[tim]

Bloody hell. What have I started?

Don't blame yourself. They started it by invading Poland.

 

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