• Salah [ey/em]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    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

    • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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      12 days 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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