Great idea! i will be brain storming some ideas!
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Growth Spurt on August 26, 2009, 10:19:05 PM
you do realize that simply giving those books to most of those organizations will yield naught, don't you?
at worst they'll be discarded. then you're out a (possibly) good and hard to obtain book.
there have been several ideas pitched for as much here on these boards, but since i can
(perhaps) safely assume you didn't use our search function, i'll digest a few for your sake here:
* don't donate the book. mimic the barcode and indexing system said organization uses, fabricate
said barcode and index, slap it on the book and shelve it for them without telling anyone. This
courtesy allows for at least one exposure of the book before it's found, and chaotic headaches
if a body tries to "check the book out" proper.
* disguise the book. gut some unfortunate tome and your book of donation, insert your book into
binding of the less fortune, repeat as before. this adds to the confusion, which adds to the secret
enjoyment of having placed the book there. with this, as long as your cover page matches the cover
of your "shell" book binding, you can still donate it and stand a much higher chance of it getting
put on the shelf.
if you dig some here, or think on it, i'm sure you could come up with many more variations and approaches.
either technique would be splendid for 120 Days by De Sade. Or Justine (My fav of De Sade.)
as for books to donate: check out falcon press and loompanics. they both have some gems of pure absurdity and
ooze the Weird.
Prater Festwo,
Worked in a public Library for a Year.