No library is big enough to hold every book in the world.

Maybe the American Library of Congress or the British Library - that’s part of their role, but certainly not any local public library like the one where I work. We can’t afford all the new releases and we don’t have the space to keep all the old releases.

I caught Linda last week trying to add “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Ulysses” to the book sale crate. “Nobody ever reads these, Nina.”

“Linda, they’re classics. That’s why we have them on the literature bookcase. And they do read them actually. I ran a report for our boss last week about that bookcase and it’s pretty heavily used thanks to the after school teens we get in here. They have to read some of them for their e...

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