On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:43 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Have you actually provided a mailing address yet?
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> You know this could use some realistic organization. It's expensive
> > to ship large quantities of books. I'd like to know they were going
> > to a library and not some re-seller.
>
>
> If anyone's inclined to send books over here, but wants absolute
> verification of where they're going, I'll give them directly to the book
> exchange (http://diwanghazza.com/?page_id=595) a bunch of the kids have
> organized. Which is kind of like reselling, in a roundabout way, since
> participants trade in books they've already read for ones they haven't. The
> problem with handing out scarce quantities of something like books for
> absolutely free is that they're as likely as not to go to people who won't
> actually read them. I see that sort of thing happen all the time here, but
> it's usually stuff like powdered milk, which I don't care about.
>
> Organization's good, but I'm not necessarily in the best position to do it,
> and I'm also not sure putting lots of time and energy into coordinating
> what would be, essentially, an aid project is the best use of anyone's
> time. Honestly, I wish most Americans who work on sending stuff to places
> like Gaza would stop, and organize against their own government's policies
> instead! That's what the place needs most, and big, well-considered
> charities often distract from it. But in the meantime, books are good.
>
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