In our little town. The thievery is garbage selfishness. We get books, we give books, we return books. Damn. It ain’t that hard to give and take. It ain’t that hard at all to be a good citizen.

The entire sale was in the little basement of the building, tons of romance novels, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, etc. The proceeds are used to buy coffee and snacks for the weekly AA meetings and similar functions.

One year there was an influx of assholes picking up every book in the place, scanning its bar code, and either placing it in their basket or tossing it onto a table. It seemed predatory and parasitic.

When I brought this up in a certain casual discussion section of a larger online forum, I was attacked from all side by people rallying in defense of these noble entrepreneurs.

So go ahead, wise resellers! Get three bucks for that copy of A Time To Kill and pat yourself on the back for making $2.50 on your shrewd purchase.

When I moved about 2.5 years ago, I had a house full of books I would have given to anyone. I couldn’t give them away.

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something like 700 ebooks.

I once counted and around 500 are cookbooks.

Sitting right here, in the very spot from which I am typing, I almost got clocked when a bookcase mounted to the wall collapsed. Books are very, very heavy and I think the insurance payout, even after a substantial deductible, was something like $2000. That covered the cost of a relatively new computer, printers, scanners, loss of the bookcase, and probably a few things I have forgotten.

And that's all I'm saying to add to your point, however, I will add this, which is not germane to my point:

I still go to the library. I mean, WTF! I can't stop going. We have a new library and a lot of the time I am thinking about being there. I'm addicted.

My husband had about 1000 music CDs. When he died, I gave them to the church to sell to make money. Then I put paperback books on the shelves.

Weirdly it was to get a library card. But with Amazon, there is so much offered (for free and low cost) that they are the go to now.

Do we have a news media or are they just here to bring us nothing but questions?

Oh. That's right. They're not here to inform us of anything.

Maybe she’s a hoarder. Maybe she’s broke. I think the library host offered desperation as one possibility. It was a brief and tense conversation in which taker was on the offense. Maybe they’ll find out later if she comes back again.

I quit putting clothing in the free clothing bank when I learned many of the donations were taken by people for their yard sales.

Someone was taking all the books out of Little Free Libraries and replacing them with Bibles.

steal something that's free) and the perp is the woman three houses down. She is in her late 70's.

She sends them to Nigeria. We don't say anything to her about it. Should we be pissed?

I did criticize my stepdaughter who set it up and fills it. Why don't you just walk them across the street and save "T" the trouble of carrying them home?

people to read and BRING BACK.

The lady with the sticky fingers, not so much.

The worst part is not that people steal all the books, it's the books get faded from being out in the sun all day.

anytime she is robbed... I can easily kick in enough money to restock the thing.

She's so busy trolling.