Someone stole a English-Japanese phrase book from the library the other day. The culprit ripped the innards of the book outtards and left the cover and page that would beep to alert security something's amiss. Now something is a-missing. The book was about the size of a deck of cards and couldn't have been very expensive. Did someone need to know Japanese so badly and so quickly that he or she didn't have the time to earn the money to buy one or get a library card? Some Anime or Manga festival coming up that requires you to know phrases like, "Where is the nearest hospital?" or "How do I find the train station?" What's frustrating to me is that whenever this happens, the book cover is always lying around where the book is supposed to be shelved. Like it just flew apart. Or so many people read it that the binding melted under such rapid page turning. At least throw the cover away. If you're going to be a thief, at least try to be professional.