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I love the idea but whenever I look in these it’s always the weirdest books and never anything I’ve heard of

I guess that is expected though as the unwanted ones build up over time

I feel like they are often unwanted discards... but we have one and we try to put interesting books in there. Recently gave away my entire Harry Potter series.

Sorry. I'm the weird niche author who puts a copy of his books in these whenever I come across a new one. Author's copies are so bloody cheap and little free libraries are full of weird stuff already, it feels more likely someone looking for books in one will appreciate mine.

Why would you want something you'd already heard of? That's hardly a discovery you could get such a book at the public library.

Why would you want something you hadn't heard of? Nobody has run out of books that they've heard are good.

Yeah the thing is books are really time consuming so I tend to pick carefully

I run out of books all the time and go hunting for recommendations

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...

Should keep you busy

The ones in my neighborhood are full of religious evangelism titles or bad self-help books.

I cannot and will not advocate the burning of books, but I did get a 13 volume collection of Ann Coulter books... And they did burn well. 415F.

Consider stepping out of your comfort zone.

Into the harlequin romance zone or the “Wordperfect 6 for Dummies” zone?

harlequin romance zone, for sure.

Sure it’s not 1985 now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

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