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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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.
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It seems like in both those cases those people were unaware that they had donated their books to a library. Otherwise I can't imagine such responses from healthy people.