Hot take: the free book box at the Portland swap meet beat every paid recommendation I ever got
I left 3 paperbacks in the box by the coffee cart at the Portland swap meet last month and came back to find a dog-eared copy of a Wendell Berry novel someone clearly loved. People here push fancy curated lists, but a stranger's scribbled notes in the margins taught me more about what to read next than any bestseller list ever did, so what's the weirdest place you've found a book worth passing on?