Their House to Yours, via the Trash

The NY Times Look at the Strand, book-scavenging semipros who help the city’s best-known used-book store keep its shelves stocked. They have no overhead, no employees and no boss. They also have no home. What they have is experience, and a fitful sense of industry. “Perseverance,” Mr. Germain, said one recent Monday. “Other people fail at this because they don’t persevere.”