This was outside a charity shop. 👍

100 old karens with nothing to do must have argued that they are entitled to one book for .50

We do an annual charity book collection and we do this towards the end of the day too. We really don’t want any books left if we can avoid it.

Guarantee it wasn’t written out first until they had people argue about it

That would be me

Not hard to move. Almost impossible to move. In my shelf apart from some old leather bound books from my grandfather (Churchils world history, complete Hamsund) and CE and hard cover 40k books I have nothing but paper trash

A library I used to use would put old books for sale outside. If someone came in to pay for them, great, but if they happened to mysteriously disappear, that was fine too.

Speaking for myself, I'm too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can't trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.

My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It's been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent's walls every few months.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.

that just means that those are really cool books

it's marketing

Don't say it that way because people will take 5 and trash 4 of them just because. Labelling it this way, people will actually take 2 if they only want 2.

Is "your" bolded because its a trap for people to point out you used the wrong version?

My welcome what?

You would be surprised how many people need a writeup like the one in the post.

Two books are 2.50.

Got myself a life changing book.

(And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)

Simple batteries can be made from readily available materials post apocalypse such as potatoes or citrus fruits like lemons. You'd need a fair amount of them for any appreciable time. After the fall of civilization, such required foods would be considered offerings to the gods to grant the knowledge stored on your Kindle long after its Lithium battery bit the dust. This would be until humans are able to make lead acid gravity cells, which again, isn't that difficult. They aren't very portable, but if you are just needing to run the device you don't need it to be.

I see you're familiar with just gimme two fiddy and take some books theorem

But I saw in Iraq

We all saw, multiple times now. Fuckin' reposts 😅

Buy one get fucked?

It's a stylised L, for libre.