Lifetime Memberships

How long does a lifetime membership last? How will Tim and company know that I have died?

Is it the lifetime of the member or lifetime of the site?

A lifetime membership grants you eternal life. Better get more bookshelves.

I'm guessing that, since you can't join till you are 13, and the maximum human lifespan is about 113, Tim could just set the system to convert your account to a Legacy Library after 100 years.

As lifetime membership is for the lifetime of the member, let's all hope Tim never finds the site has more members than it can support...

I plan to continue to buy more books than I could ever read well after my death. I would like to have somewhere to catalog them.

I don't think LT yet provides afterlife membership. (But if you can get WiFi on the other side...)

Early termination fees may apply.

I've bought, won or been given about six or eight lifetime memberships. I hope the servers are robust!

One more and you'll be a cat!

I joined well after I was 13. WELL after. Crap, I think I got gypped!

Presumably a lifetime membership is valid for your whole lifetime, including before you actually joined. It's just a bit tricky taking advantage of that.

What if you're resuscitated after being pronounced clinically dead? Do you have to buy a new membership?

My biggest concern is if I am brought back to life as a zombie. Will my revenant have the same limitless book cataloging capabilities? Even if they are all books on brains and whatnot.

I understood that the rules were similar to the one year membership. At the expiry of your time the library remains but you can't add to it.

.... (I love this thread!)

14: I'm sure your account would still be here, but I doubt zombie-you would be interested in non-brain books... it'll talke a long time to recatalogue everything, and do zombies really have so much free time?

15: You mean I won't be able to add anything after I die? Well that sucks! What if I want to add a book about the afterlife and write a review debunking all the things people got wrong about it? I should be allowed to do that! :P

DaynaRT@3,

Won't eternal life require infinite bookshelves?

> 17

http://www.helloyou.be/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/koelewijn12.jpg

That's not infinite, just endless. :-)

>18 lilithcat: freaking awesome - thanks for the eye candy.

>16 Heather19: Agreed!

18: But how do I reach the books in the middle? Also, that's nowhere near enough shelfspace for my books.

I suppose you can reach by crawling under the small space available by the elevated shelf.

Since I got mine, I haven't stopped adding books. Scary.

21, 22

Perhaps one needs a library ladder, probably designed by Escher.

>How long does a lifetime membership last? How will Tim and company know that I have died?

It works the other way around. Tim terminates the account, the member keels over in shock followed by heart failure.

Yes, that's they way it would happen for me.

I have told my Next of Kin (my sister) that there is an SD card containing all my banking/investment/internet account details tucked into "Volume three of my absolutely favouritest book". That would be The Return of the King, but I'm not sure she knows that.

In a (possibly vain) attempt to stop her just dumping my library at the nearest 'opportunity shop†', I've also told her that I've tucked thousands of dollars of my 'undeclarable income‡' into the pages of some of my books.

†Which is unfair, I know. I've found some of my most loved volumes in Op-Shops, probably from surviving relatives doing exactly what I don't want my surviving relatives to do.

‡Not 'Undeclared'. She knows what I mean. I sincerely hope that you do not*.

eta:
*I just re-read that and it makes me sound like some sort of drug lord or porn king. I can assure you that I am neither.

26: oohhh vague post is vague and mysterious!

it makes me sound like some sort of drug lord or porn king. I can assure you that I am neither.

Jim, jimjimjim, you're fooling no-one but yourself.
;-)

Is there a place for thread hall of fame? I think this may be my favorite thread ever.

>26 justjim:

I hypothesized that you had some rare or otherwise valuable books that have appreciated but skimming your tags didn't reveal anything obvious, except maybe those first eds (no idea what that market is like).

FYI, when googling "vexillology", I discovered that it has three Ls rather than two. How did you come to know that's a word in the first place?

@26 I just re-read that and it makes me sound like some sort of drug lord or porn king. I can assure you that I am neither.

oh Jim, don't lie to the nice people...

;)

'Small space' and 'crawl space' are not necessarily co-terminous. It depends on the size of the crawler, I think. Of course, everything is relative -- but you should see some of mine.

I bought a life-time membership for my husband after he was dead. Seriously. It's kinda an unofficial Legacy Library at this point.

I did ask Tim how the "lifetime" thing was going to apply, but did not get a clear answer. I may have exploded his brain.

I may have exploded his brain.

That might explain a few things. ;)

> 33

I think he'd deserve an official Legacy Library. Nice of you to have done the work already; would you invite LT to convert it?

35> Tim did offer LL status, but I'm holding off until I get the last uncataloged books added. A good many (probably a coupla thousand, actually) from our joint library really were his books, and should be copied over to that account, too. So I'd rather nothing official be done until I feel more settled with what's there.

Thanks for asking :-)

The joke's on Tim. I died six months ago. Please, don't anyone tell him.

#37 Maybe it's Tim's lifetime and not ours!

38> Best comment of the thread, I think. :D