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

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

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

The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ

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

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.

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.

Can anyone from Iraq confirm?

But what if the thief steals the books not to read them, but just to fill their house with books and make themselves seem erudite and intelligent?

I'm imagining the most extreme version of this, where a man is living in a house that is a veritable library. Yet, they're actually illiterate.

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

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.

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

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

And it doesn't rain

The vandal does not read, either.

But the arsonist, tho...

Those poor books 🥲