Help BookThing! -- There's a place in Baltimore for all your unwanted books, and all your dreams of unlimited free books, too. BookThing is basically a way station: drop off books you don't want, take some you do, and it's all totally free. Man, is that on my itinerary or what? Anyway, they are moving to a new space and could use a few bucks. Let the good karma flow, people. You know, for all the zillions of books gathering dust in the homes, offices, cars, backpacks, etc. of greater Boston, continually refreshed by visiting our top-notch independent bookstores, I really don't think we could do something like this here...alongside Yankee frugality you get Yankee Hoarding Instinct, i.e. people would overwhelm the facility in about an hour with decades' worth of novels and textbooks, and would scoop up an equal number to take home, thus defeating half the purpose. Add to this the Masshole Factor, i.e. equal doses of skepticism and entitlement regarding one's fellow humans, and things could get pretty ugly. But hey, it wouldn't hurt to try...especially for kids' books, maybe? Hmmmm...