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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Which store is this? It sounds like a great place to hang out.

[-] [email protected] 104 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's a cute quote but that's obviously not outside. Jeez

[-] [email protected] 229 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 125 points 2 days ago

Or that "the drunkard urinates on books for fun"

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

Or even "the bored shithead sets fire to things"

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's not nice. Please don't do that.

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[-] [email protected] 139 points 2 days ago

Me, stealing every pdf I can find:

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

But the reader does not steal, the clear logical conclusion is that piracy isn't theft if you read the book.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago

Sometimes 🥲

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

It's a shame the people who you stole them from don't have them any more...

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

One persons treasure is another's trash. I have bought books for a dime that I treasure.

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Piracy is not theft. You have not deprived anyone of something they would otherwise have.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Sure looks like a regular Street, you know, with a roof and stuff.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

You might call it a shopping arcade. Pretty common in many cities, and likely is a public street, despite having a covering.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.

Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

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

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