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That's pretty smart until you learn that "the thief sells"

Me, stealing every pdf I can find:

This is clearly a indoor Bazar with doors that lock on both ends, they leave them out cause it's not technically outside and ain't nobody breaking in to steal some books, shits heavy and probably doesn't sell for all that much on the black market

I also don't steal. I download my books from online copies, which is copying, not stealing.

Sure looks like a regular Street, you know, with a roof and stuff.

The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ

Here people even "steal" books from public bookcases and sell them.

For people who aren't familiar, let me explain: These public bookcases are a weatherproof shelf, old phone booth or something in the streets. The concept is you can take any book and leave any book. There are no written rules and you can keep a book if you like or just read it and put it back. In recent years people started to scan the barcodes and checked what books they can sell. There is a debate going on if people should mark these books or not, so they can't be sold.

Can anyone from Iraq confirm?

They should learn to read and find out the shit Sheherazade said about them.

But what if the thief steals the books not to read them, but just to fill their house with books and make themselves seem erudite and intelligent?

I'm imagining the most extreme version of this, where a man is living in a house that is a veritable library. Yet, they're actually illiterate.

And it doesn't rain

The vandal does not read, either.

But the arsonist, tho...

I think that's just one way of saying they're not prints worth stealing

Those poor books 🥲