Should I steal SICP?

So I was lounging around the local university library, as is considered normal for NEET, and I found a hard cover copy of the first edition of SICP. The paper that gets stamped with the due date is last marked in... 1997. it pains me to see such a magnificent tomb sit abandoned between a bunch of decaying 1970's journals on AI that are so fragile they belong in special collections, and a book called "The Magic Machine: A handbook of Computer Sourcery" (actually, that one is pretty neat).

Problem is, they have those annoying anti-theft detectors at the front to stop geniuses like me from setting information free, do I get the book out of the library where it has been ignored by foolish students for G-d knows how long and into my loving arms?

inb4 [b]sepples[/b]

The summer of entering my HS sophomore year (2007), I stole a C++ book from the school bookstore. As a poor kid working in the bookstore for financial aid and school supplies, the $150+ book was out of my range. As a programmer at that point, I dabbled in C for about a year and I've grokked pointers only for a few months ago. Everything was very new and worth exploring. The C++ book's OO emphasis noted that I should take consideration in design. This was a big step from writing an entire C program inside the main function. While there were better book and language choices, I didn't know what I was doing. Though, it was still a progressive decision because it motivated me.

The following year (2008), I enrolled into the book's intended class. Ironically, the teacher dropped the book because it was too expensive. xD
*And a year after that, the he dropped C++ for python. (2009) Yes, because of that MIT situation.

Now. Had I not stolen it, I would have probably given up on programming (and later CS) and the book would have been tossed into the trash.

Yes. Steal it if it will waste away, but it's your duty to secure it now. Don't let it waste on your bookshelf.