Loaning Your Collection?

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brotagonist

Discussion Starter · Feb 21, 2015 (Edited)

Do you like to loan albums from your collection to a family member, friend, neighbour, colleague or acquaintance? If you don't have physical albums, then do you like to share or loan the drive or device they are on (or whatever would be equivalent to physically loaning)?

How about books? Do you like loaning them?

I view my collection as a collection (we did the collection thread a while back). I don't like to loan out an album, just as I wouldn't like to loan out a stamp from a philatelic collection or a coin from a numismatic collection. It's a collection. Similarly with my personal library (I no longer have many books, since I use the internet and the public library, mostly, but I do have a small and specialized collection of primarily reference materials). I don't like to loan. It is a personal collection and not a lending library. I don't have the necessary infrastructure or funding to be able to keep track of check outs and check ins and due dates and replacement due to loss or abuse or wear and tear.

Nowadays, it is easy to refer someone to an online source for the item, so not liking to loan is not such a stigma as it once seemed, I think.

What do you think?

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Triplets

· #21 · Feb 21, 2015

There are a lot of CDs that have "gone missing" from my collection and I think it has something to do with my adult children (One in particular) periodically helping themselves and then not owning up to it. I don't really complain because at least I can take comfort that they spend some of their time listening to Classical Music. When they actually ask to borrow, I make a point of burning the disc to a Hard Drive (now that I have started trying to burn my collection anyway).

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Figleaf

· #22 · Feb 22, 2015

Nobody wants to borrow mine.

:lol:

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Jeff W

· #23 · Feb 22, 2015

Only to the people I explicitly trust. Which means only the future Mrs. Jeff W and my brother!

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Kivimees

· #24 · Feb 22, 2015

Figleaf said:
Nobody wants to borrow mine.

:lol:

Likewise. Problem solved!

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GreenMamba

· #25 · Feb 23, 2015

Sure, I would loan them. I've loaned books, but nobody as asked for my Classical CDs.

I'll admit, I don't feel comfortable about loan-and-burn. You like the music? Pay for it.

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Fox

· #26 · Feb 23, 2015

GreenMamba said:
Sure, I would loan them. I've loaned books, but nobody as asked for my Classical CDs.

I'll admit, I don't feel comfortable about loan-and-burn. You like the music? Pay for it.

I agree but if I burn a CD for someone I know that they will buy it If they like it, if not they will discard it or return it to me.

Besides that the quality of blank CDs in the UK at least at the price I am willing to pay for them is terrible so a copy of said CD won't last very long even if you are careful.

Fox

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Badinerie

· #27 · Mar 1, 2015

There are two close friends who I will lend to, as over the forty years we have grown to trust each other without thinking about it.
We actually have had a number of each others Recordings,Hi Fi equipment,Musical Instruments and gawd knows what else, for so long, its hard sometimes to remember who's original property they were! We know where they are if we need them.
Everyone else can go whistle!

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20centrfuge

· #28 · Mar 4, 2015

I loan out relatively freely (except for individual discs from a box set, NEVER!!!!), but I know that 50% of the time I will never get it back. I view a lot of that as my mission to spread CLASSICAL MUSIC TO THE WORLD :lol:.

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