{"id":19117,"date":"2021-08-13T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=19117"},"modified":"2025-02-20T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:12:18","slug":"free-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/free-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Free books and other free stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>\r\ndd {\r\n  text-indent: 2em;\r\n}\r\ndd + dd {\r\n  margin-top: -10px;\r\n}\r\ndt {\r\n  margin-top: 1em;\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<p>Books, movies, games, toys, and other items! Free to a good home. <a href=\"mailto:logos@kith.org\">Let me know<\/a> if you want any of these.<\/p>\r\n<p>The list is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1HypwmW05Meyq31RNkIQpcZR5iYux7S09oGQ13Zf2WbE\/edit?usp=sharing\">spreadsheet<\/a>; to view it, follow that link.<\/p>\r\n<p>The spreadsheet is divided into three tabs: books; movies; and games, toys, and other objects.<\/p>\r\n<p>For general information and context about the books, see below.<\/p>\r\n<p>The list contains a total of about 235 items, as of February 20, 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>About the books<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<h3>Provenance and recommendations<\/h3>\r\n<p>I\u2019m sorry to say that I can\u2019t give recommendations about the books on the list.<\/p>\r\n<p>About 80% of them were donated to my Little Free Library; some of the others were my father\u2019s; some are books that I no longer want, or that I have duplicates of.<\/p>\r\n<p>I know nothing about most of the books on this list; and of the ones that I have read, I didn\u2019t like most of them enough to keep them. But you may love them! Different people have different tastes.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Abbreviations<\/h3>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>MG<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Middle Grade\u2014intended for readers roughly 8-12 years old.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>MMPB<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Mass market paperback.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>sf<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Speculative fiction\u2014that is, science fiction or fantasy.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>YA<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Young Adult\u2014intended for readers roughly 12-18 years old.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\r\n<h3>Condition, links, genre, titles, etc<\/h3>\r\n<p>Most of the books on the list are in fair to good condition, but some have soot-damaged covers. If you want more info about anything on the list, just ask.<\/p>\r\n<p>Links for speculative fiction books go to ISFDB. Links for other books mostly go to Goodreads or the Doghouse book database. In all cases, the links may not show the same edition or the same cover as the version of the book that I\u2019m giving away.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve included my best guess about genre for most of these books, but I could be wrong about them. If you\u2019re looking for a particular topic or genre or type of book, like <i>travel<\/i> or <i>dog<\/i> or <i>mystery<\/i> or <i>memoir<\/i> or <i>nonfiction<\/i>, try searching in the spreadsheet, or sorting by the Genre column.<\/p>\r\n<p>Some of the book titles listed are marginally NSFW. I\u2019ve rot-13ed those titles. Some of the content of some of the books is also NSFW, but I haven\u2019t marked those books.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5482,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19117\/revisions\/19124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}