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The margins on used books aren't there to make this worth anyone's time.
Yet I still see someone scanning books with their phone to find the value most times I am in goodwill.
I’m convinced people pick these over to resell the books in some cities.
I’m sure that happens but it may still be a net benefit. The original owner gets rid of a book they don’t need and don’t need money for, somebody who needs money takes the book and sells it, and somebody who wants the book buys it. But some do seem to just have high turnover. When I moved away from a place in New Orleans I probably took about 100 books to one of these over the course of a month. Most of the time I’d…
This seems like the worst of both worlds. If you don't care about the social/interpersonal aspect of reading then just use the internet. If you do, go to a real library. Seems to be entirely a boredom-fueled bird-watching project for the maintainer. It's not a "nice thing" at all it's an out of place paternalistic nudge that makes teens feel unsafe in their neighborhood. The only nice things that comes from them are…
The rest of your comment is so absurd I'm not going to bother asking.
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Well first of all if thirty books disappear in one day, that's probably an inorganic usage. If none of them ever reappear, that's another indicator. And then if the person you see taking thirty books is dressed in rags with a shopping cart, you can be pretty confident. Or maybe OP just means that none of them ever return; it's supposed to be a LF Library after all, not a LF bookshelf.
Huh, I've literally never heard of someone before thinking it's supposed to be a library that you return books to. Must be different attitudes in different places. I've always seen people treat it as a swap-shop. Take some books you want, and some other day drop off some books you want to give away.
And there's an unspoken rule that you should probably give back, too. It's a community good, not a charity.
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I don't understand how it's bad to pirate a book, but fine to freely give one away. Both deprive the author of a sale. Either they should both be allowed or both be prohibited.
Same reason you're allowed to gift your gold watch to someone, or sell your car. Both of them do potentially deprive the creator of a sale, but they keep the same total number of things in circulation. Sure, you can argue that philosophically it comes to the same thing, but the problem is that, if you win that argument, the powers that be are more likely to ban giving away things you own than they are to allow piracy…
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Ideally, what should the stamp say?
It says in the OP's link. I was just wondering if book buyers respected the stamp and furthermore if the people stealing the books recognize it enough to be deterred.
Places like that won't buy them if they are stamped.
They could try selling them on Amazon or E-Bay, but that's too much effort for quick cash to get a fix.
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It says in the OP's link. I was just wondering if book buyers respected the stamp and furthermore if the people stealing the books recognize it enough to be deterred.
Yes the places that buy used books respect the stamp. They usually take all the books and take them to some place Half Priced Books https://www.hpb.com/ for some quick cash. Places like that won't buy them if they are stamped. They could try selling them on Amazon or E-Bay, but that's too much effort for quick cash to get a fix.