No. Almost none of the books you donate to the library get to the shelves. If they can sell it, they will. Otherwise they are thrown away.

I even read on a web site of a librarian that their library had stopped accepting donations because "patrons should know how to throw away their own trash".

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merely-unlikely 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> "patrons should know how to throw away their own trash"

That makes me a lot sadder than AI companies destroying the books but at least preserving (most of) their knowledge.

	▲	BeetleB 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's the reality. If you're old enough to remember when people subscribed to magazines ... how often did you throw out a magazine? How often have you thrown out manuals for products you don't use any more?