Well, uh, I suppose you could say that. But the idea originally came from one of our volunteers, Dolores Carson.

Uh, mostly. We met back when we were both volunteering at the recycling center, back before the monsters built the science lab? 

Oh, most of the books are actually donations. People's personal books that they've outgrown or are no longer interested in, books from liquidated estates, donations from storage units that have defaulted.