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TL;DR – Twitter thread by a library worker on a news article about a woman who pulled hundreds of books out of a library dumpster and donated them to an underserved school. THOSE BOOKS WERE THROWN OUT FOR A REASON. Like outdated science, racism, and misogyny. #ContextMatters 

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You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

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So I’m at a library in a town I don’t live in to spend time with my nieces and I go to the bathroom and see this sign.

They turned their old card catalog into free supplies people can discretely take on their own.

This is the coolest thing ever, a great way to help people without making them ask, and an amazing reuse of a the card catalog. I’m seriously about to cry I love it so much.

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Normalise the acceptance of different types of readers. Ebooks, audio books, comic books, graphic novels, fan fic. They’re all valid.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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I got a couple new bookmarks today, and I thought it would be a good time for a bookmark appreciation post featuring some of my favorites.

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it might seem like my whole life revolves around fictional characters but yes it does

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quiet library

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I only have two moods, excited by all the unread books i have and overwhelmed by all the unread books i have