This painfully verbose skeptoid at the JREF complains about ill treatment from his local library. He's been warned that if he continues to do what he does while at the library, his membership will be revoked.
So what's he doing? Going in, and cheerfully rearranging books. He knows, you see, where they belong. Not just any book, randomly moved to elsewhere at his whim. But books on ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, and the like-- moved out of the non-fiction section (or science, etc.) to the fiction section. He knows better, those silly librarians, with their degrees and training and all, don't.
(I have to say though that something about the post smacked of a put on... shrug.)
Such a helpful chap (and you'll see, when you visit the thread on JREF, why I'm talking like a character out of My Fair Lady) just trying to make things right. And all he gets for it are stern warnings from, alas, librarians who should be on his side.
Other JREFers join in, with comments of support, and their own tales of woe about this very same problem. Private bookstore, or library, they make their displeasure known. Why, sometimes, as one poster shared, bookstores take him up on his advice, and they do move UFO books to the fiction section! (Shame on wimpy ass bookstore!)
I tell you, if some full of himself smug skepti-bunkie came into my bookstore and told me what he thinks about UFO books or ghost books, etc. being moved to the fiction section, I'd be mildly polite (business you know, to a point) and utterly ignore the twit.
Not that I own a bookstore. But one of my dreams is to own a groovy little UFO bookstore on the coast. Then again, if I did, I can't see a skeptoid coming in there in the first place.

2 comments:
Jeebus!
What a psychopathic Mooroon!
I bet this guy gets punched in the face a lot!
I nearly peed myself reading this ;) I live in Toronto, Canada and about a month ago I noticed something similar in our local library. I came across some UFO books in the Sci-Fi area, and when I noticed some true ghost story books written by a friend in the mythology section I pointed this out to my hubby. I then noted I couldn't even find any crypto books anymore. Was very weird, and we speculated maybe an employee was an evangelical Atheist and filing them this way....now I've got to wonder. Next time I'm in the library I'm going to check the numbers on the book and see if they match the library catalogue as to where they should be located. I bet we have a JREFF fan in the neighbourhood who was inspired by this idiot.
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