May 15, 2007

Cleaning....

Today I`m going to through out a lot of old books. They were left by old flat owner when she died. Too bad that she didn`t read good literature. There were mostly silly novels and books written in Soviet time about Soviet soldiers and comunism. Still I got few good books too: colection of Anthon Checkov works, F. Kafta, J.Vernes and some other authors` books. It`s not easy to through out books, but no one needs them, they are worth nothing.

Lately there is cleaning going on in Latvian libraries. Similar books like mines are thrown out. It`s normal. What seems little bit strange to me is that they through out also good classics if no one had read those books for some time. It`s possible to pick them up for no fee if someone wants, before books are sent to recicling.

2 comments:

Dewey said...

Have you found many books that way? Through libraries throwing them out?

Rozmarins said...

I could, but I have to keep myself "to the ground" otherwise I won`t have place for myself at the house.... So I`ve taken only 4 or 5 books: about Peter the Great, two books by Thor Heyerdahl and some other.