Iraqi book market culture
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Here people even "steal" books from public bookcases and sell them.
For people who aren't familiar, let me explain:
These public bookcases are a weatherproof shelf, old phone booth or something in the streets. The concept is you can take any book and leave any book. There are no written rules and you can keep a book if you like or just read it and put it back. In recent years people started to scan the barcodes and checked what books they can sell. There is a debate going on if people should mark these books or not, so they can't be sold.The climate isn't good enough for this where I live all the books would get ruined
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Or that "the drunkard urinates on books for fun"
Yeah or what happens when it rains? Or someone drops a book into what appears to be an upper gutter running through the middle of the street?
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Nice try, Dubya
You might say it’s… my racket.
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The climate isn't good enough for this where I live all the books would get ruined
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm in the UK and these are all over the place, especially in more rural areas, and we're famed for our lovely weather!
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But what if the thief steals the books not to read them, but just to fill their house with books and make themselves seem erudite and intelligent?
I'm imagining the most extreme version of this, where a man is living in a house that is a veritable library. Yet, they're actually illiterate.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Sounds like a "truther" or flat earther.
I was about to describe here a world wherein a flat earther glass through a book to call it out on all the "lies", then I realised "oh wait, I literally watched a video on that"
... It was a children's science book
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Or that "the drunkard urinates on books for fun"
Probably not a lot of drunkards where all alcohol is illegal.
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This is clearly a indoor Bazar with doors that lock on both ends, they leave them out cause it's not technically outside and ain't nobody breaking in to steal some books, shits heavy and probably doesn't sell for all that much on the black market
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But the arsonist, tho...
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The climate isn't good enough for this where I live all the books would get ruined
I live in SW Finland on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It's wet and cold 90% of the year.
We still have this sort of book exchange in the entrance way to my local shop. A tiny bookshelf/night desk. Not too common though, I can't think of any others right now.
But like the weather shouldn't be the issue, that's just an engineering problem at that point. I imagine like a glass doored fridge with some dehumidifiers placed inside should probably work in most places to protect books.
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Nice try, Dubya
wrote on last edited by [email protected]* ducks under flying shoe *
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It's a shame the people who you stole them from don't have them any more...
Next you'll tell me that you wouldn't download a car.
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But what if the thief steals the books not to read them, but just to fill their house with books and make themselves seem erudite and intelligent?
I'm imagining the most extreme version of this, where a man is living in a house that is a veritable library. Yet, they're actually illiterate.
That's common as a backdrop for offices and stuff, they sell books by the pound for that.
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...Can't tell if this is a repost bot
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That's pretty smart until you learn that "the thief sells"
In this case it would be they scan it for the Amazon price list and take anything that has a positive rating.
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This is clearly a indoor Bazar with doors that lock on both ends, they leave them out cause it's not technically outside and ain't nobody breaking in to steal some books, shits heavy and probably doesn't sell for all that much on the black market
Yeah it's a cute quote but that's obviously not outside. Jeez
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The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ
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Here people even "steal" books from public bookcases and sell them.
For people who aren't familiar, let me explain:
These public bookcases are a weatherproof shelf, old phone booth or something in the streets. The concept is you can take any book and leave any book. There are no written rules and you can keep a book if you like or just read it and put it back. In recent years people started to scan the barcodes and checked what books they can sell. There is a debate going on if people should mark these books or not, so they can't be sold.wrote on last edited by [email protected]Who tf is buying normal books from the local black market in 2025 is my real question here
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Who tf is buying normal books from the local black market in 2025 is my real question here
It's more of an online market. eBay, Amazon to a certain extent, there's loads of book specific ones and some that are for used items generally and allow books. And unless marked it's not the black market at all. I mean obviously the book is stolen, but it's just entering the used market as opposed to being sold through a fence or whatever
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The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ
Piracy is not theft. You have not deprived anyone of something they would otherwise have.
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Me, stealing every pdf I can find:
Digital piracy is not theft. You’re not depriving the person who shared the pdf to you of anything.
