The scene above looks like the result of some sort of disaster or catastrophe. Or the preparations to a book burning, what with the piles and piles of books. This is actually the scene of a warehouse that, at one point, held as many as 5 million books that were designated for sale on Amazon.com.
However, the lease expired for the bookbarn, the firm running the business packed most of the expensive and new releases and left the rest behind. Overwhelmed with the amount of books left behind, the people who owned the lease on the building decided to open the bookbarn to the public.
The result was overwhelming. People came from all over, filling their cars and trucks to the brim with books. Hmm..if only something like that happened in New York....Actually, who am I kidding? Strand would be all over that like white on rice.
However, in today's world, it's nice to see that something like this is still possible and that instead of trying to turn a profit on all these books, they just let the public have it for free. As you can see from these pictures, there is an obvious lack of organization and I'm betting that many books got destroyed in the process of people searching for something they like.
I LOVE second hand book stores but I have to admit, often time's it's hard finding something worth taking. That seemed to be the problem here. Nothing was organized so people had to search for themselves and in such an overwhelming sea of books, it's easy to just not care about stomping over some.
I am curious as to why these weren't sent out to surrounding libraries and public school's though. Would make more sense than to open it up like this and risk so much damage.
Eh, what am I talking about? Deep down I'm just glad that people were excited enough about this to show up in the thousands to get their hands on some of the findings!
This is what what the Bookbarn's usually look like:
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