BiblioAddict

Via The Book Bench:

The warehouse, whose lease recently ran out, once contained as many as five million books destined to be sold online.

After the lease expired, the firm running the secondhand book business moved out, leaving it full of books.

Managers of the industrial estate invited people to help themselves so they can free up space at the site.

‘We thought it was a sensible idea to give people the opportunity to come along and choose themselves a book or two and help us clear the warehouse.

‘The response has been unbelievable since we opened it to the public. It’s like a swarm of locusts.

Ok.  The fact that books are strewn all over the floor and that people are walking on some of them is a tragedy.  But… a warehouse full of free books?!  Does anyone have a ticket to Bristol they’re willing to give away?  Oh, and a trunk the size of a U-haul truck?

The full article can be read here.