"Why didn't I..."

I had considered putting together some "experimenters kits" in the libraries. I hesitated since I wasn't sure I could get to the right audience. I'd thought something small like an Arduino Nano clone or a RPi Pico, USB cable, a ping sensor, a couple PBs, a piezo-buzzer, a couple LEDs with resistors pre soldered, and a SSD1306.   Still under consideration, need to find a suitable library location.  

I think you meant for this to be a forum post kmikemoo so I converted it for you from a blog post 

kmikemoo said:

I never thought of putting technical books in these Little Libraries

We would have loved for a 'little library of electronics' but... a little library of electronics books is understated

That's a great idea! We include a bunch in the prize for the best little library! 

with the frizz? no way! 

 cstanton  Thank you.  Given even odds, I will pick the wrong one most of the time. 

I'm going to do that. Put some databooks and Object Oriented (Grady Booch !!!!) software books in a random book exchange place.
I don't read them anymore, but they are still relevant, and changed my life.
Why cling onto them?

(Grady Booch' "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications" rewired my brain. That book made me think different, analyse different. Hard to explain, but it unlocked a different thinking pattern. It had and has more impact on my career than my formal studies.
Little correction: My professor in my sophomore year told me to read that book, so that may count as formal studies. Thank you Erik @ Groep T Leuven)

It happens to a few people, I'm still trying to work out how

We have a little book exchange at work, which is a bookshelf with all the unwanted engineering books, mostly very old computing books because they get outdated quickly! : ) 

I offered (decent) books to my local library, but they refuse to accept any (despite there being just a total of three books that could be considered electrical-engineering-related in the entire 2-floor library currently - and in the Parenting books section bizarrely), because of Book Beaurocracy; there's no process for accepting them. And, according to the senior librarian, even if they could accept them, then their funding for new books gets reduced! You'd think that would reduce tax burden if people could donate, but anyway, ours is not to reason why.

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I have never seen a tech book exchange before. We have a big bookcase at work where we exchange books, but they are all fiction, which is fine with me. I read technical papers on-line - the books I read are all fiction.