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[–] Salah@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I just heard that 2nd hand books are getting more expensive where I live and those free book cabinets you find on the streets are getting emptied by people who want to sell the books. I wonder if it’s related

[–] average@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To me this seems like a desperation quick money scheme which is equally unfortunate in a different way.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The only little free library I've seen nearby is always full of nothing but romance books, and by the looks of it, not even good ones, just dime-a-dozen "literary" porn - i.e. "bodice rippers". I assume anything else gets taken quickly by either someone who wants to read it or someone who wants to sell it, now I've read your comment... and previously I thought it was just that those books are what people tend to get rid of and no one wants secondhand even for free.


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