Taliah 's question reminds me that I wanted to ask the US audience out there if
you saw the segment on Sunday evening's ABC news regrading " The Book Thing" ?
It's not the solution to all of our discards but....there's a man (forgot the
town but maybe in Massachusetts)who takes in all sorts of books that people
can't bare to put in the trash and he just offers them - not for sale, not for
loan - people come and load up. They showed some librarians, teachers, and or
home schoolers getting books needed for educational pursuits (textbooks, even)
and one charming 14-year-old who obviously LOVED having access to such a wealth
of books to take for her own --- I think she was stamping them inside the cover
with her name of something even before she left the room. The Book Thing is
all in ONE room somewhere. I tried visiting the ABCnews.com site to refresh my
memory on some of the particulars, but didn't have any luck. Probably because
is was just a short human interest item at the end of the newscast.
For what it's worth.
Marcia Dressel
Osceola Elem and Int. Schools
Osceola Wi USA
ddressel@svtel.net P.S. I've never been subscribed to this list during
summer. It's.....different..........fun. Thanks, cyber- colleagues.
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