I figured out why Little Libraries seem to have such a capacity for taking books...
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Anonymous
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I was walking my dog about 10pm, half a block up from one of the (many) Little Libraries that are in my neighborhood... car pulls up, dumpy guy gets out, opens it up, takes all the books, dumps them in his trunk and drives off.
I assume he's a book re-seller, looking for any high-value books (like current NYT best sellers that someone paid $32, got as a beach read and then thought to give away) and is going to toss the rest. Don't know how I feel—I put some pretty nice books in sometimes and hope a neighbor picks them up before guys like that grab them all. Anyone else seen this? Is it technically illegal? |
Anonymous
| Welcome to living in a low-trust society. People suck. |
Anonymous
| How could it be illegal? You don't sign an agreement/waiver. You leave books with no intention of knowing what will happen to it. |
Anonymous
| Fine with me. The books are getting reused and someone is making a buck off them. |
Anonymous
I dunno, I've never read a LL agreement. I know with free newspapers in grocery stores there's fine print that says that the first one is free and everyone after that costs some nominal fee so if people snatch a whole pile it's a crime. I didn't know if LL has some fine print that says you're not supposed to take all the books. |
Anonymous
Yeah, but people put them in there wiht the idea that their neighbors would enjoy their old books. And it's just some perv in a basement out in the burbs selling them on Ebay and dumping the rest. I guess the flip side is that people put a lot of crappy books in there—no, no one wants your religious tracts or your 15 year old, outdated college textbook on "leadership". If these guys don't clear them out, they'd clutter it up. |
Anonymous
| I put books in the Little Free Library across the street from me all the time (probably 3-5 a month, I'm a voracious reader and generally don't keep books once I'm done with them) and I'm fine with this. I don't love if he's throwing a bunch out, but reselling? Power to you man. And the throwing out is conjecture. |
Anonymous
| Disgusting behavior. Sheesh and I feel bad taking more than 1 when my kids and I go. |
Anonymous
| Does your neighborhood library have a used book sale? If I have a new book that I am not keeping, I generally donate it to our library for their used book sale. |
Anonymous
total conjecture, but if he's not throwing them out, I can't imagine where he could possibly be keeping them. I've tried selling old books and I had incredible look selling almost new copies of current popular books (like, when at Christmas I got a recently released hot new book) but everything else languished. I think if you don't have a warehouse and a real knowledge of unique titles you're going to get buried under the trash. That's why I switched to just putting my books in the LFLs. |
Anonymous
| I think library friends groups sometimes take them and resell them at library sales. |
Anonymous
| He was the Little Librarian. They only come out at night. |
Anonymous
I don't want to be in a low-trust society. Where did that come from? Did we import it or vote for it? |
Anonymous
| If this guy empties it, there's more room for me to unload more books. For me the objective is to get the stuff out of my house. |
Anonymous
You’re the classic overscrupulous type who ironically judges anyone who doesn’t conform to your exaggerated sense of morality. take as many books as you want. It’s ok. |