It's not easy to carry in books, until you learn the system. So here's the overly complex, uneconomical way to bring a book into the library.
Clearly, you have to conceal your book in something else, but you can't bring any backpacks, purses, etc. into the library. What are you going to do? Find a loophole. The library lets you bring in laptops provided you get a special clearance at the staff entrance first. When I say special clearance, I mean a guard writes down the date and serial number of your computer on a slip of paper and hands that slip to you with no questions asked. Then, I put my laptop back in its case along with my books, exit the building into the street, and I walk towards the general entrance. At the general entrance, I have to show one of the guards my slip of paper and he just let's me in with no questions asked and without checking what's in my laptop case. Then, I have to go through a security checkpoint that doesn't even work. So, I put my laptop on the tray and walking through the metal detector with my keys, belt, pencil sharpener, and anything else that would normally set off an alarm. Then, I go through one more guard station where the guy just checks my slip of paper again, but doesn't look inside my laptop case and I'm home free. I can study with my own books!
I am still trying to figure out what the point of that slip of paper is for... My entrance process would be much quicker if I didn't have to go to the staff entrance first.
And, now it's time to translate some newspaper articles.
