Some days ago, a neighbor invited me over because she was donating books that belonged to her husband, who died from covid during the pandemic. There were a lot of books, and even by choosing only the ones which caught my attention, I was able to get over 100 different books.

It was the first donation I have ever received and I got really happy about it. I am already halfway through The Shining, which was in the collection. So it got me thinking about donation itself.

What about your experiences with it? And I am asking about donation of things, not money.

  • LemmyUser_1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A co-worker was getting rid of years worth of Science Fiction paperbacks. I scored about 500 books and only ended up with about 50 duplicates. I sold the collection 20 years later to some other luck Sci-Fi reader.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if my book collection will end up with some other reader years from now… 20 years is lot of time to read them all.