> the barrier is allowing customers to find what they are looking for. I am really glad that there are people like the old man who are willing to do stuff lik

> the barrier is allowing customers to find what they are looking for. I am really glad that there are people like the old man who are willing to do stuff like this and people like yourself who are willing to help. The real barrier, I think, is a bit more complicated than just being able to find stuff. It is also the fact he will be running out of space and that as more and more people find what they want the undesirable stuff (that no one wants) will just keep growing. There does need to be regular culling, I think, to keep weeding out the duplicates or books that no one wants. Also, there needs to be some effort to discover and sell the really valuable books which could produce occasional windfall funds to keep the endeavor going. "The Book Thing" in Baltimore (https://bookthing.org/ https://bookthing.org/) which I have visited many times seems to be tackling this problem. It's basically a "free book" exchange. Massive. In a warehouse. It is a fairly popular place and is run by an interesting eccentric fellow with very particular ideals. I would recommend see how they do this stuff. As for thoughts, I think that regardless of what he does, he will need one or more employees (or dedicated volunteers) to actually perform the indexing and physically organize the books.