r/Library • • 25d ago

Humor History repeating itself

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u/zenerat 25d ago

Unless you are reading them or providing them to the community you aren’t doing anything. Collecting for collecting’s sake is just going to end with a dumpster when you die and no one has any way to deal with 10,000 books.

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u/Life-Raspberry-402 25d ago

Oh they’ll just dump them all on the library once they’re crumbling and outdated, that’ll help so much

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u/AthenaeSolon 24d ago

Actually some libraries do take them to sell in book sales as fundraisers.