Books for sale at the lending library downtown Grand Rapids

            During Saturday and Sunday cashiers collect money from buyers eager to own delisted library books. How collections are combed for deaccessing and disposal to the public has a logic and science no doubt: perhaps based on physical wear and tear, revised editions making the earlier one redundant, or rates of lending - never checked out (even when viewed at the shelf location only) then flags a book for possible discard, for example. In any case in this afternoon Sunday photo, there are lines of buyers with their bag ($5 per) or box ($10 per) waiting to pay and be on their way.

Some may be online entrepreneurs scooping up high value (coffee-table sized?) books for online reselling, but others delight in building a bookshelf of their own collections in this inexpensive way, knowing that if a book once lived at the library, then it must have some quality or value to it.

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Taken on: October 22, 2023

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