Sydney University is giving away books.
You read that correctly.
The entire Undergraduate Collection at Fisher Library (thousands of books!) are being handed away for absolutely nothing to postgrads and academics. A man behind a desk on level 9 sits there from 9:00-5:00 and checks student cards and identification – the level is out of bounds to all those who are neither academics nor postgraduate students at the university. Inside – glory of glories! – rows of shelves stand solemnly and offer up their unguarded treasures to greedy, snatching hands.
I took thirty-one.
Echoes from the Ether: