Saw something weird at the library book sale last Saturday

I went to the annual library book sale in our town and noticed a stack of the same book, like 30 copies of it, all in great shape. It was some self-help thing from 2019 about morning routines. Who donates that many of one book? Has anyone else seen weird piles like that at these sales?

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piper_kim22d ago

30 copies of the same book from 2019 is super specific. Did you check if they were all from the same publisher or maybe stamped with a company name inside? I feel like that could be a failed corporate giveaway or maybe someone clearing out a storage unit. Either way, it's weird that nobody grabbed them before they hit the sale floor.

rowan96921d ago

Honestly, this stuff bums me out, feels like a real waste. All that effort someone put into writing that book just to end up in a pile nobody wants. Hope whoever donated them at least feels good about the tax write-off, even if the library is stuck with the mess.

karenh5622d ago

@piper_kim made a good point about corporate giveaways because I once found a box of 50 identical motivational books at a church rummage sale with a company logo stamped inside the cover. That book about morning routines sounds like something a wellness company might have bought in bulk for employees and then dumped when nobody wanted them. Someone probably got a tax write-off for the donation and the library got stuck with a pile of unsold copies.

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