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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
... you know, it's kind of sad when you can't even *give* books away. luckily i've not run into that problem yet, there are still plenty of places which will take them from me (for free, anyway), and nobody is making judgements about the quality of the litterature or whether or not they have been exposed to cigarette smoke... that just seems insane to me. and it's a bit worrisome if a library is practising that kind of censorship !  unless you only mean the physical state of the book ? |
If a book is in demand and the library budgets are limited (and what public institution does not feel its budget is limited) then they should be happy for any contribution. Once, the library held sales of excess books and donated books that they could not use. This raised funds to purchase other resources. This I supported. For them to dump books (some still in shrink wrap) is wrong. They lost my financial and physical support with that act.