Hoot if you love the free pile
I don’t really respect books. I treat my books like crap and am perfectly willing to ruin them. I read them in the tub, I fold the corners down, I crack the spine, rip them in half so that I don’t have o carry around the whole book and will happily cut out pictures and put them on the wall. Why leave them hidden in a book?! For other people to enjoy? 
Books are not a precious commodity for me – they are easy come, easy go. And respecting a book, the physical book itself, doesn’t mean you respect the author or the ideas within it. I like my books visibly loved.
Okay, except for my big nice coffee table type books, I admit. I want those to stay nice. Although I do cut pictures out of them…
The library across the street from me has a free pile. i lurve the free pile. I have stocked Jack’s book shelves with books from there. Many of them are discarded library books and discarded older magazines. Scientific American from December 2005 is probably almost identical to the Scientific American of August 2008. so who cares if it’s old!
I just read a book from the free pile called “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell”, it was pretty good.
my constantly raiding the free pile at the library is a step up from my usual ‘must stop at every junk pile on the street’ problem. The last thing I picked up off the street was one of those acrylic wall maps that big buildings have up to tell you were to go inside. I thought I would.. you know… stencil over it or something. And mayby I will! someday.
The time before that We took like 2 boxes of glass lab equipment off the street. Which I then donated to the East Bay Depot of Resuse. They were happy!
I know i can’t be the only person obsessed with the idea of getting something really awesome for free. It’s the thrill of the hunt! Roooaaarrrrr!
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June 21, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Dude, I had *such* a problem with free stuff when I discovered Craigslist. i would run out and grab as much free stuff as I could just because it was free — not because I needed it. Caused many problems in our house-of-no-storage-areas. Eventually had to really reign myself in and chant ‘need, not want’ to myself over and over.
On the other hand, most of the yurt has been furnished from freebies (bed, couch chair, dresser, rug) plus the jungle gym, as well as the super sweet bookshelf in Mags’ room. A new coat of paint and voila! Oh, and a sweet compost bin, too.
Yay free!