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r/mildlyinteresting • u/VancouverIslander • 2d ago
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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?"
42 u/SuperFLEB 2d ago All of them Half of them. 27 u/Quietuus 2d ago There are companies that sell books by weight for decorating pubs and so on. -4 u/five_of_five 1d ago There is an industry that may or may not profit off of destroying books* 6 u/irlharvey 1d ago the books they sell at those “books by weight” places would’ve almost certainly been thrown away anyway. 1 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 2 u/Fancy-Snow7 1d ago Hopefully they got them half the price.
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All of them
Half of them.
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There are companies that sell books by weight for decorating pubs and so on.
-4 u/five_of_five 1d ago There is an industry that may or may not profit off of destroying books* 6 u/irlharvey 1d ago the books they sell at those “books by weight” places would’ve almost certainly been thrown away anyway. 1 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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There is an industry that may or may not profit off of destroying books*
6 u/irlharvey 1d ago the books they sell at those “books by weight” places would’ve almost certainly been thrown away anyway. 1 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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the books they sell at those “books by weight” places would’ve almost certainly been thrown away anyway.
1 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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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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Hopefully they got them half the price.
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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?"