zammg Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Weird question, but I have a set of the Fifty Shades of Grey books that I no longer want, it doesn't feel right to throw it away but I can't donate it to shelters or schools either haha. Wonder if anyone knows any good second hand book shops or libraries in Bangkok who would take them off me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ExpatOilWorker Posted June 6 Popular Post Share Posted June 6 https://www.dasabookcafe.com/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowellandrew Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 So you feel that these books are inappropriate, Then you want to pass them on! 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steven100 Posted June 7 Popular Post Share Posted June 7 so your into reading porn books and magazines 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post impulse Posted June 7 Popular Post Share Posted June 7 (edited) I used to go to work before dawn in Bangkok (Asoke) and was always amazed at the trash guys who would empty the bins from the apartment complex onto the street, and sift through looking for anything of value before putting the garbage into the truck. If I had a set of books to get rid of, I'd bind them up into the set and put them out with the trash, confident that they'd end up in the place most likely to make someone a few baht by reselling them. Edited June 7 by impulse 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PaulDee Posted June 7 Popular Post Share Posted June 7 (edited) If you're in Pattaya, take the books to the next breakfast meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club where the books will be made available free to members. As an alternative, take your books to Canterbury Tales (used book store) for a store credit. If you're not in Pattaya, check local listings for similar groups/stores. Edited June 7 by PaulDee 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grumpy one Posted June 7 Popular Post Share Posted June 7 Turn them into toilet paper. You can rename them " 50 Shades of Brown " 1 1 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CecilM Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 19 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said: https://www.dasabookcafe.com/ To the OP: Contact Dasa. Email them a list (in writing, no pictures) of what you've got. They don't like walk-ins and "here take this stuff". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignore it Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Consider sending them to a high school library in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinok Farang Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Infant school libraries in the US would clamber to put your book on their shelves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 (edited) 2 hours ago, PaulDee said: If you're in Pattaya, take the books to the next breakfast meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club where the books will be made available free to members. As an alternative, take your books to Canterbury Tales (used book store) for a store credit. If you're not in Pattaya, check local listings for similar groups/stores. Call me a prude, but I don't know that I'd bring my "inappropriate books" to an expat club meeting. That would probably go over like bringing a MAGA t-shirt collection or a Marylin Chambers retrospective box set. Nobody would want to be seen taking them. And I wouldn't want to be seen bringing them. First impressions and all... If near Chatuchuk, there's a whole section of used book stores right near the MRT Kampheang Phet (sp?) station. I think the chances of offloading them would be higher in the weekend market. Edited June 7 by impulse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven100 Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 what about your local temple 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Bob? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomchop Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 lots of hotels have a bookcase in lobby or near the pool where people leave one take one paperbacks....just put them in one if these and those that want to read them will.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Local prison and jail houses will just be delighted for a new material to keep the inmate busy i would guess... and the more 'inappropriate the better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomchop Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 2 minutes ago, pomchop said: lots of hotels have a bookcase in lobby or near the pool where people leave one take one paperbacks....just put them in one if these and those that want to read them will.... ..so 4 books total? not a lot of books ....somebody will want to read them...i read one and it was weirdly interesting Fifty Shades of Grey 4 Books Collection By E L James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In Full Agreement Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Mail them to Canterbury tales in Pattaya. You can easily look up the address. Kerry would be inexpensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinok Farang Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 2 hours ago, ezzra said: Local prison and jail houses will just be delighted for a new material to keep the inmate busy i would guess... and the more 'inappropriate the better... Correct,always desperate for waanking material in those places. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nana kid Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Send them to Neilson-Hays Library in Bangkok. A very large English library on Surawong They would love to have them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 4 hours ago, ignore it said: Consider sending them to a high school library in California. agreed! GOP babies will want to burn and ban them if you send them to on of their backwoods states!!! reading is BAD!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticky Rice Balls Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 if you have any literature on how to pick up trashy women i can take them off your hands 🙂 asking for a friend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon43 Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 (edited) A little story that I've told before on this forum: About 20 years ago I lived in Saladaeng and managed my UK 'sex-chat' text messaging business remotely. (This was an AI chat app called Natachata that the BBC reviewed at the time and said it was a good candidate to pass the Turing test - fooling users into thinking that they were chatting with a real human). At that time, online advertising wasn't 'a thing' and so I mostly advertised in top-shelf printed media with a company called Goldstar Publications who published the most 'inappropriate' sorts of magazines. (Think of your dear old grandma being 'serviced' by a well-endowed black guy...). Anyway, Goldstar would publish my adverts each month and then send me a copy by snail mail to prove that they had published my paid advert. But I told them that on no account were they to post this disgusting material to me in Thailand because I would probably end up on some porno criminal charge. But they didn't listen! Every month, about 10 different top-shelf mags would arrive at my rented condo in Saladaeng and I would hastily put them in a black bin bag and throw them away. One day, the usual assortment of absolute sex filth (!) arrived and I quickly put them in a black bag and went to the communal trash can facility on my floor. As I was pushing the bag into the already-full can, the bag ripped, exposing the absolute worst kind of depraved pensioner-sex porn to the Thai cleaning lady. "They're not mine" I babbled, going bright crimson. "Mai ben rai" she said. "I make very good money every month from selling your magazines - I watch you every time you go to this trash can!!" Edited June 7 by simon43 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 23 minutes ago, simon43 said: fooling users into thinking that they were chatting with a real human). Yes a very good story but how do we know we are chatting with a real human now ? 😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Aged Grouch Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 If they are in english donate them to the local university !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
still kicking Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 8 hours ago, steven100 said: what about your local temple Kindergarten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven100 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I never thought anyone living in Thailand would be into porn books & magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novacova Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 On 6/6/2024 at 2:13 PM, zammg said: Where can I donate somewhat "inappropriate" books? At the local incinerator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prubangboy Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 I put an opened container of youghurt out in the hall with the FREE! written on it. It was gone in 5 minutes. To be fair, it was big one, not a small one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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