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It's the same around me, but I think that's due to the survivor effect. Just last week I needed to make space on in my bookcase, so I dropped about a dozen nove
by jetrink 5y ago
It's the same around me, but I think that's due to the survivor effect. Just last week I needed to make space on in my bookcase, so I dropped about a dozen novels in the little libraries around the neighborhood. By the next day, half the books had been taken and a few days later, they were all gone. If their main purpose is to help books find new homes, then they seem to be very effective.
- steviedotboston 5y agoYeah, but my guess is the people who took your old books will probably not actually read them and then will donate them somewhere else in the future. We have an aversion to throwing out books out of principle, but sometimes you just have to admit that a book is worthless and perfectly fine to throw out.
- pessimizer 5y agoLuckily we don't have to admit that when somebody else wants the things that we were throwing out. Let them get a chance to admit it. Pass that chance down the line until the book ends up in the landfill. We all end up in the landfill eventually, there's no hurry.