4,000 free books: Bring Your Own Boxes

Steve Fesenmaier spotted An Article that points the way to 4,000 free books.

New owners are renovating a four-story structure, down in Charleston, for office or retail space. While they’ve hired a construction company to make the building handicapped-accessible and change the look of the interior, the one thing they haven’t been able to do is get someone to move out the books.

“We’ve asked the Regional Jail Authority and some nonprofit groups and nobody wants them,” Greer said. “If someone can take them all, they can have them.”

They say the collection, which includes a range of newer fiction and some older legal and reference works, might make nice decor for any law firm that decides to move in.

August 19, 2003 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. j_at_work says:
    August 19, 2003 at 11:19 pm

    First Post
    Maybe the Book Thing of Baltimore could take the books…

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  2. bentley says:
    August 20, 2003 at 9:33 am

    Sell them to Hollywood?
    Paramount Pictures is looking for “upwards of 1000 linear feet of cloth bound books” for their production of A Series of Unfortunate Events. _

    Reply

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