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take big book leave small book

throw big book away

>>13293398
Little Free Libraries are stupid and completely worthless to anyone who isn't a menopausal housewife looking to show off how much she "LOOOVES BOOKS!!!"

>>13293398
What is the best way to troll these besides stealing everything?

>>13293570
Why would you?

>>13293570
Put culture of critique in there

>>13293576
Fun.

>>13293570

Slip a few enticing Polaroid photographs in one of the teenage books

>>13293584
sauce?/whos that?

>>13293636

And if I told you it was my mother?

>>13293686
I'd ask you why you have them and if you've got any more.

>>13293584
>tfw i found one of these in a used book i bought a couple years ago
>except it wasn't pornographic it was just creepy

>>13293398
What’s the problem? So it’s a big book. Is it a good book? Those things never seem to have anything worthwhile...
>>13293558
You just had to bitch about your women problems.
Your mother torture you or something?

>>13293584
Nice

>>13293577
LOL that might be epic if the person accidentally reads the entire thing before realizing what he is reading XD

i used to like the feeling of lending good books to friends but they never fucking read them and it would only make me mad. now i just leave them in a box and pretend people are reading them. it's better like this.

>>13293558
i've gotten some good books from them. IQ84 by Murakami, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, a Vonnegut short story collection, Love Among the Haystacks by DH Lawrence, Free Fall by William Golding and some weird old Christian science book and a couple hyper-obscure postmodern academia books which are total gibberish to me

>>13294701
filtered

My uni library purged their copies of Sex and Character last year, I grabbed all 4 of them and left 3 in these things.
Fuck women.

>>13294906
>My uni library purged their copies of Sex and Character last year,

don't believe

>>13294824
I used to work at goodwill and would take old tattered versions of dense socioeconomic shit and put them in the little free libraries full of childrens books.
I like to think that at least one gifted kid wise beyond his years has picked up Freakonomics or War and Peace and loved it.

>>13293558
The fuck is it?

>>13294993

Or some homeless woman took it and used it as toilet tissue.

>>13294882

You've just demonstrated their worthlessness. That said, I have personally used them as polite dumping grounds for socially acceptable/old/damaged books that I no longer wanted, two or three times. One step up from the trash, a non-zero possibility that my discarded books may have use-value for someone else, but probably not.

I've looked in them maybe ten times, and it's only ever been pure pleb trash, not worth the bother. Also if I'm a homeowner, it's way too familiar. I don't like the idea of weird random people coming up to the thing, or leaving something illegal on my property, ostensibly in my possession (9/10ths of the law, as they say).

Little Free Libraries are SWPL feel-good objects (there's hundreds in my area) but have very marginal utility, and are counter-intuitive to a right-thinking homeowner and property manager.

>>13293636
some disgusting irish piece of shit

>>13295031
>You've just demonstrated their worthlessness.
WOAH

VERY PATRICIAN

>>13293570
Put a copy of The Great Replacement in it

>>13293581
Until you realize you don't want them at all and now have dispose of them, but perhaps someone simple (unlike you) could have enjoyed them, which means you take pleasure in denying the happiness of others—you're a degenerate, "just a prank bro", kill yourself.

>>13293558
>I'm a bitter little troll and I can't enjoy anything nyah, nyah, nyah

>>13293570
put new books in there! People will be so confused! Is this book supposed to be here? It's new! It'll be hilarious.

>>13296016

>>13293558
I love looking through them, I’ve found books I would have never otherwise read in little libraries

>>13296016
Lol I like you

>>13296027

These free book sharing things are awful, there's always trash accumulating in there.

>>13293398
i put the sorrows of young Werther in a local one 2 years ago and its still there

They have this sort of thing where I work, but it's always awful romance novel and action thriller stuff. I've left one or two duplicate copies of books I had that were classics but had names that would trick people into reading them. For example: The Trial.

>>13293558
the absolute fucking projection

>>13295031
>property manager
landlords get the r*pe desu

I like to put gospel tracts in the middle of each book.