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Book Piles

Lots of books! They were mostly about various science and medical topics.
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I could spend days in here...
Ed
Tue 06-28-2005
Hope they donate those to some medical school(s)....would be sad to destroy all that information.
AutumnTwin@aol.com
Sat 07-16-2005
i'm sure they're pretty out of date, medical schools probably wouldn't have a use for them
Cam
Sat 08-20-2005
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY SO MUCH STUFF IS LEFT BEHIND WHEN THEY CLOSE THESE PLACES DOWN.
Twug
Thu 08-25-2005
Sometimes it cost more than its worth to pack things up and take them.
Joshpine
Sun 09-11-2005
It's a shame to see books piled up like this, like a scene from ray bradburys farenheit 451
psycadellic one
Fri 10-14-2005
It also appears there's some newspapers in there. If they're over 30 years old, I'ld like to have them.

..... pb
Puddleboy
Sun 10-23-2005
COLORFULLLLL!
poisonousxbeauty
Thu 11-17-2005
The books have catalogue labels on the spines; so the library shelves were worth saving, but the books themselves weren't. You've got to wonder about organisations' priorities sometimes.
Hebridean Al
Tue 11-29-2005
Well...someone must have been busy reading books today!
Jeff
Fri 12-02-2005
Medical books *pants* To bad they don't look all that vintage as I collected the OLDER ones. Early 1900's. No information learned is useless information.
RBVannacutt
Wed 12-21-2005
i am a big mook buff myself .. and to be honest i think every book is worth looking at ... just to see how far we have come through the years ya know ? if have a comment email me justicedreams24@aol.com
spider girl
Tue 02-07-2006
haah my boyfriend would love those
Dana
Tue 02-21-2006
i would spend forever in there! i wonder y alot of these places leave all those books and files? especially about patients, isn't there some kind of law or rule about that?
Amanda J
Thu 03-02-2006
They should recycle all these books if they are no longer any good. Why do they leave them behind?
Joe
Fri 03-03-2006
They have no sense when it comes to leaving this stuff behind! I would think that they'd find someplace to put these books away. If not, then wouldn't it make sense to hold some kind of public auction for these books?

I know it makes sense to me.
Sarah
Fri 03-31-2006
helllllllo ebay !
~angela
Sat 05-13-2006
Anyone up for a little lite reading?
I got dibbs on any Steinbeck!
Shawn W.
Sat 05-13-2006
ITS MY DREAM COME TRUE!!! BOOKS ALINING THE WALLS AND THE FLOOR!!!!
from under your bed
Sat 05-13-2006
I have this many books in my bedroom - I ain't kiddin' -- am checking in on my new computer at home -- just love it.
Janice
Sat 05-13-2006
Day?!? I could spend the rest of my life in there!!
Nancy
Thu 06-15-2006
Some of the books and things in there look really new, like the box and the papers strewn across it.
Jessica
Sat 02-03-2007
maybe the government was doing scientific projects and it got canned
james
Sun 02-04-2007
In some other places they took the books and left the shelves.
Richard Davies
Fri 04-27-2007
what, no porn?? how boring!! lol
Trish
Tue 09-09-2008
it's such a shame how they left all these books
behind. I would love to get my hands on them! lol
Emily
Tue 03-10-2009
I want all those books! I'm gonna donate them to my local library!
ilovehorseyrides
Sat 08-15-2009
OMG ~ it always hurts me when I see people abuse, neglect or throw out books. Possibly because I'm a bookworm and writer but still. . . couldn't these have been donated to some place. After all there is information in these books, granted it is probably dated, but still it's history and give a picture of the mind set of the time
eldokid@aol.com
Fri 01-15-2010
OOOOOH! any books pertaining to dentistry???? that would legit make my life <3
emzroz
Thu 12-29-2011

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