Our library has a "dead" section for things nobody ever checks out. I picked an odd-looking book to read from there. Between two pages, I found a $20 bill and a thank you note from the author for reading it. IMMD
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but what was the book?
Agreed. The book. And was it good?
oh god that is so depressing.
Not for him, he made 20$.
That makes me a little sad, but I am happy you are reading it. You should write the author a thank-you note.
Yes, please tell us what the book was. I want to go check my local library.
No! That’s awesome! Was the book any good? (I hope, if you took the guy’s $20, you at least read the book. If you didn’t, put the twenty back!)
Cool! Once at university I checked out a book from the 40′s…it looked like it only ever had one of the “stamp”sheets in the back…and it was empty. I believe I may be the only to ever have signed it out. But, sadly, no $20.
I don’t want the $20, mainly because I don’t live in America anymore so it won’t do much good for me lol! I just wanna know because if the author is that desperate to get his book read, hell, I’ll read it.
ORLY? Reminds me of that story: http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/foundcar.asp
I think that’s really cool. It stinks that the author had that hard of a time getting readers, but still…a neat idea.
Yeah, what’s the book? See, now s/he’s getting free promotion…if you’d only reveal what the book is.
It’s a lie and not very creative one either.
Guys, that’s just an urban legend. They won’t tell you the name of the book because it’s not real.
I suppose I really should share things more current than stories from my childhood. First time posting so I had no idea how much space I had either. It was at the Huntington Beach Public Library (California, big one in a park), and was before the renovation is all I can remember for certain as to the timing, so it probably had to have been at least 20 years ago now. Hardcover, missing its jacket, I found the note and bill while flipping to try to find a random page.
I didn’t find the page interesting, so being the overly-good kid I was at the time, I did leave the note and bill there because of some obtuse fear that “somebody would know I cheated”. I still found it really awesome that the author (in theory… Not going to analyze handwriting or anything back then..) had taken the time to do that.
I thought maybe it was something about plain-looking books, so I hunted through the rest of the books to see if any other authors had left money in a book I liked so I wouldn’t be cheating. No luck. *chuckle* But I did hope that if somebody else found it, they wouldn’t cheat and take the note and money without reading the book.
That being clarified, I’ll skip future childhood stories and keep an eye out for contemporary items of interest.
No, Mina, it’s not “just an urban legend,” though I can’t vouch for the authenticity of this particular story. The fact is, LOTS of writers have done things like this– in book stores, libraries, etc. Check out the snopes.com link Nieheltz posted and see what lengths writers will go to in order for their stuff to be read…