Yes!!! Excellent idea donating to libraries! Sadly, most public libraries are bought and paid for through book club contracts that control their content. Most non-fiction is gone, replaced with pop culture garbage. Our local library does not take gifts or donations (unless it's money) and their trash bins are often found full of discarded books. Hundreds of years of civilization knowledge is being erased and rewritten right under our noses!
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Sad but true. Now then it's probably a matter for private libraries, not public ones. Often times I think of initiatives like this public bookcase in Giromagny, France....
... and how it certainly is futile effort when those who keep those initiatives tidy - or even worse people who take access to it - again sort out books they don't like. On the other hand if I operated a very small bookcase initiative like this in Berkeley, USA ...
... I'd certainly sort out books I don't like myself as well. It's exasperating. So instead of giving those books to libraries it might perhaps be a straw to hold on to occasionally distribute such inexpensive books individually into such
publicprivate yet publicly available bookcases so that they can circle.And then again I think of tracking those books somehow, too, to be able to know if they are forgotten, lost, even destroyed, or still in circulation - and maybe publish insights about this.
But then I think again of decentralized, open, censorship-resistant social media and that the time of political books may indeed be over, even without book burning. Don't we live in a time of media industry and therefore mass media will probably not make the difference anymore? Then it is certainly better to give $ 4,000 daily to monitored social media users like Marc De Mesel is doing with https://noise.cash, instead of stacking books somewhere no one will find them.
Advertising The Tuttle Twins there might be worth the effort for more people buying them - and gifting them privately again.
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Awesome thoughts, I'm considering contacting Connor Boyak to see if he could do are books for private libraries. He might!
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