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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
It would be tempting to buy print books that can be matched, just to be able to donate those print copies to the library.
But I wonder if there's anything in the small print that says you should keep the hardcopy. (To be fair, I've never noticed/paid attention to whether that's also try of the CD match program, though).
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That is assuming that the libraries want them. Over half of the books donated to libraries (at least when I worked there) did not land on the shelves. They were sold for pennies to raise money for books for the libraries--books that the librarians wanted to order, rather than the ones donated. Anytime you want to donate a book to a local library, first check with the librarian to ask if she will shelf it or sell it. If you ask, they will tell you. We had numerous patrons donate entire, LOVELY sets. They were furious to find that they were sold. Some were signed copies that the patrons had gone to a lot of trouble to obtain. In one case a lady donated all her romance books because she was moving to a small apartment. Imagine her outrage and dismay when she found that instead of "saving them someplace where she could always check them out again" she discovered that our library had a policy of carrying very few paperback romances...and all but two had been sold.