Can we talk about the coffee shop I found near Portland that runs its own mini library swap

I stopped into a place called The Book Nook on Hawthorne last weekend and noticed they had a shelf of used books you can trade for any drink purchase. Has anyone else seen a setup like this that actually works without people just taking books?

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hannahs717d ago

Did your friend actually see anyone trading, or was it just people grabbing free books? My buddy tried something like that in Seattle and he said inside a week the shelf was empty except for a moldy cookbook and a Dan Brown novel nobody wanted.

tyler3686d ago

My buddy set one up in his apartment lobby in Portland and @hannahs71 the first day someone actually left a signed copy of a Vonnegut novel. But after that it was all old textbooks and a stack of Reader's Digests from 2004. Someone must've grabbed the good stuff fast cause by month two it was just a shelf of junk. Did yours ever get any decent trades mixed in?