At college book sale headquarters we had a “found-ins” box with much of the same: photos, letters, theatre tickets, postcards, cancelled cheques, at least one cheque that had never been cashed, pressed flowers, candy wrappers (and fossilized gum or candy), tickets of admission to all manner of attractions and historic…

I work in old books and by the end of the day my fingernails look like I have been awake since sunup, digging the north forty.

Trust me, after you have squished the twenty-first roach or silverfish, nuking the site from orbit looks pretty good.

I LOVE that you have provided an actual eye witness account to this weirdness. Thank you for your service.

So far found in books besides the usual bookmarks/post-its:

Or domestic violence shelters, juvenile facilities. How could he not give them away, everything I come up with is easier than “Drive around on the highway throwing out the window”.

Get your romance running

Maybe he was trying to help others become litter-ate?

And yet, they are the most common thing in the world. That best-seller from 1985? There are, at the very least, tens of thousands out there, at libraries, used bookstores and private homes.

MONSTER

Part of me knows what you mean after working in a second hand bookshop and volunteering in an Oxfam one what some people bring in is baffling, the textbooks and the Reader’s Digest oh god yes! There’s still a bit of me that cringes when I throw out a book well probably not the boxes where 20 mins of scrubbing my hands…

Same. Our library had a book drive for active duty overseas. I couldn’t believe the shamelessness of our donors. “Thank you for your service. Here’s a dog pee stained copy of ‘I’m OK You’re OK’ from 1975.” We purchased new books and sent those, instead.

YYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH! (Roger Daltry scream)

its a sacrilege to through a book away

I work in a library, and for many years I also volunteered for my college’s annual book sale. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have handled a million books in my lifetime. And after plowing through box after box after box of donations, you see so many bug-ridden, filthy, mouldy things: textbooks out of…

Never throw books out the window when the authority of the law is watching.

After “a failed attempt at giving them away”....

I remember driving 287 to Longmont and encountering this a while back. It was a truly bizarre scene. There were hundreds of books in the center median of the highway. Both the wife and I looked at each other and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Ultimately we decided it was some weird Boulder “hippie” art project /…

Meanwhile in my hometown: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/police-un…

Always makes me think of this.