Donate Books to Katrina Victims
13 Sep 2005, 11:18:37 pm
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Ephemera Bound Publishing, the team 'o' folks who run this blog, have arranged for donated books to get directly into the hands of displaced Gulf Coast residents. Shenanigans are at a minimum: the Salvation Army of Houston, which is already helping many of the survivors & evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, is expecting the donated books to be sent directly to their offices and will get the books to the people who need them. BookCrossing is helping by getting out the word, and their system should let book-loving donators connect with the book-recieving donatees.
There's readers who might scoff, saying the people could use money & food more than books -- but, given that this is a bookly blog, we think most of you will agree with our position. A good book can help relax a reader and entertain a person. A children's book gives parents a chance to sit and bond with their kids without attention devoted to their other problems. Books can also impart knowledge, or get a reader to reflect on their own life. Heck, when has anything bad happened because a person read a book? Donating a book to the Katrina victims could easily be the least corruptible act of charity these days.
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