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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dana K White makes sense to me on the reselling issue.

If this guy wants to put in the work to sell the books, that's more work than I'm prepared to do. I used to take used kids clothes to a church that gave them out for free. A worker told me that people were turning around and selling them at a consignment store.  Well, I wasn't prepared to go to the effort if consigning, and I'm pretty sure the clients doing this needed money more than me.

https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/2013/01/why-i-dont-care-who-sells-my-stuff/
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Maybe thinking that resellers need the money and are being industrious will help me be less judgmental, but I think it still bothers me.[/quote]

Why? It’s a pure economics issue. If you want your books ONLY to be given away for free, then you will need to make additional effort to donate them through a different and more exclusive channel. But you don’t want to make that effort do you? Much less costly to just put them in a LFL. Meanwhile the reseller finds the books of value and connects them to people beyond your neighborhood who are willing to pay. Unless you were willing to seek out those folks and get the books to them for free, you are taking away their opportunity to get affordable books. All because why, you’re mad that the reseller makes a few bucks off your junk?

At the end of the day if you are not willing to put the resources in to make sure your books go only where you want them to go, I don’t see how you can see the book reseller as engaged in some kind of immoral activity. he is doing work that you do not want to do. [/quote]

People really think like this? You have no clue, PP. The LFL is not about economics -- it's a library. It's about SHARING, not TAKING or SELLING. If there is a more economical way to handle used books, who the hell cares? You can't see the forest for the trees. This is why we need more liberal arts requirements in all majors.[/quote]

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