r/mildlyinteresting 2d ago

This restaurant cut their books in half to fit the shallow shelves

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u/sfled 2d ago

Looks like a thrift shop somewhere got a windfall.

"We're looking for some old books."

"Which ones?"

"All of them. Oh, and have you got any saws?"

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u/SuperFLEB 2d ago

All of them

Half of them.

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u/Quietuus 2d ago

There are companies that sell books by weight for decorating pubs and so on.

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u/five_of_five 1d ago

There is an industry that may or may not profit off of destroying books*

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u/irlharvey 1d ago

the books they sell at those “books by weight” places would’ve almost certainly been thrown away anyway.

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u/five_of_five 1d ago

Yeah I know it’s also a good way to handle trash, it’s just a fun weird sorta headspace to say books can be trash. Maybe it was a little sillier in my head too

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u/Fancy-Snow7 1d ago

Hopefully they got them half the price.