Yeah but the vandal does vandalize. In my country there are tons of shitheads who like to see the world burn and destroy someone else property when nobody is around. Like in some neighborhoods in certain cities you can’t have a mini library in your front yard, since a certain type of teenager will ransack it and set the books on fire.

We do this at a used book store. It's books that we don't think we can sell inside for whatever reason, and we put them on shelves outside. There's a big awning so they don't really get rained on unless it's raining sideways. We sell them for a dime or a quarter, and there's a slot for overnight drops in case people want to get books at night. Every morning there's at least a couple of bucks from the previous day/night.

We donate the proceeds to public radio, and over the years we've donated over $100,000.

Mom says it's my turn to post this next week!

I have stolen books and then read them, so ...

I think that's just one way of saying they're not prints worth stealing

This is clearly a indoor Bazar with doors that lock on both ends, they leave them out cause it's not technically outside and ain't nobody breaking in to steal some books, shits heavy and probably doesn't sell for all that much on the black market

That's pretty smart until you learn that "the thief sells"

Me, stealing every pdf I can find:

The fence? He is friends with the thief and the reader.

The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ

They should learn to read and find out the shit Sheherazade said about them.

At one point you could get swaths of ebooks on pirate bay. Probably still could. With seeders. Soo…we know that’s not true.

I also don't steal. I download my books from online copies, which is copying, not stealing.

Here people even "steal" books from public bookcases and sell them.

For people who aren't familiar, let me explain: These public bookcases are a weatherproof shelf, old phone booth or something in the streets. The concept is you can take any book and leave any book. There are no written rules and you can keep a book if you like or just read it and put it back. In recent years people started to scan the barcodes and checked what books they can sell. There is a debate going on if people should mark these books or not, so they can't be sold.