Rogue Book Exchange

great idea but they need to filter their books a bit more. seems like they accept any book that is donated. the store is mostly filled with books no one wants to read. even though they are free, i only found 1 – 2 at most i wanted to read.

This place is simply one of my most exciting finds in a while.
You walk in to the clean, brightly lit space, and it seems like a well-​organized, attractive used book store. But no! It’s not a bookSTORE. It’s a clean, well-​organized collection of books available to for FREE to anyone who walks to browse an select. All the books are donations, of course, but you don’t have to donate to take. I feared it would be heavy on romances, westerns, and other genre fiction. But no! The fiction selection is varied and eclectic, including popular, classic, literary, and yes, some genre fiction. Non-​fiction is weaker, but my ecstasy was not dimmed by this prospect. I walked out with _​The Gulag Archipelago_​ (Solzhenitsyn, paperback, excellent condition) (n.B. That one may dim my ecstasy, ha!), _​Travels with my Aunt_​ (Graham Greene, hardback, dust jacket slightly torn), _​Arctic Dreams_​ (Barry Lopez, paperback, good condition), and _​The Berlin Stories_​ (New Directions paperback by Christopher Isherwood, excellent condition). I dropped $ 2 (suggested donation per visit) in the box on the way out and counted myself the luckiest girl in Medford.

«Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves — or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.»
–Ayn Rand
Rogue Book Exchange is this place; here and now and in Medford.