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Books under the bridge

By adamg on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 7:29am
Books under the Longfellow Bridge

Mark Novak shows us the Boston under the Bridge Bookstore somebody's set up under the Cambridge side of the Longfellow Bridge.

UPDATE: The Globe reports state officials ordered it boarded up today because reasons.

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Longfellow Bridge
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By NHRDinRozzie on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 8:02am.

Too bad this gets demoed in the not too distant future!

Not sure if this is better or worse than the trophies.

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By steveluvskaren on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 10:00am.

must be books for the homeless or some prank by mit students....

i remember ride read return at porter sq t station.... a victim of its own

success... or the t ripped it down as an "eyesore" i recall lots of books

being there read and returned as usual then they were read and NOT

returned one man looking at the empty bookcase had a look of shock

on his face and said FUCK!

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By anon on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 1:42pm.

It's courteous to return books, but the reason these free libraries work is that for most paperbacks, the secondary market value is a dollar or less, and lots of people have too many books that they're looking to get rid of. They're available everywhere and they're basically free: putting them out at a free library allows them to get a little more use before the end up in the recycle bin.

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By Elmer on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 4:49pm.
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By Trophy guy on Thu, 03/17/2016 - 10:46am.

I have 4 more boxes of trophies patiently waiting for a home. The Irish step-dancing trophies are particularly fetching and deserve to be on display. Bring back the shelves!

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By Ron Newman on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 11:43am.

The eastbound side (next to the river) or the westbound (towards-Kendall) side?

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By Felicity on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 4:05pm.

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By theszak on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 1:56pm.

Any other maps around the web of these sorts of things?... besides at
http://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/

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By RozzieMama on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 3:45pm.

Such a shame. It was a kind moment in the city.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/22/makeshift-library-appears-un...

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By Elmer on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 4:47pm.

          ( She just loves to take things away! )

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By Ron Newman on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 7:24pm.

from the Globe article:

Jacquelyn Goddard, a spokeswoman from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the state agency undertaking the bridge overhaul, said the books were removed because they were on a wall where demolition is scheduled to occur.

“The books have been preserved. They were not discarded,” she said in an e-mail.

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By RozzieMama on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 9:00pm.

Weird. Why would they board up the shelves if the wall was going to be demolished? Why not remove the shelves? Seems like an odd response.

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By NHRDinRozzieUnderCover on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 1:40pm.

The trophy case and now the library were built off of/used some structural braces for that soon-to-be-demolished wall.

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