We have an old phone box in our village and it’s used as a free library.....

Lollin

I lead a sheltered life blondiescot , assume parents have the latest safety apps on youngsters phones.

Oh, I think many parents would be utterly horrified if they even knew a fraction of the stuff their kids access on their phones!

Why on earth would you remove it? It isn’t yours?

I lead a sheltered life blondiescot , assume parents have the latest safety apps on youngsters phones.

It sounds like a plot from Midsummer Murders!

I think PamelaJ1 was perhaps joking when she suggested moving the book.

I think the book should be left in the phone box. Someone will enjoy it possibly.

We had so many copies of this series of books donated to our library, I started reading the first one but it was such badly written clap trap I gave up.
Why are you censoring reading matter for your village PamelaJ

Lollin

I’d be concerned about the person who thought it okay for youngsters to discover

They've all got smartphones these days - there's a lot worse than Fifty Shades for them to discover right at their fingertips!

I’d be concerned about the person who thought it okay for youngsters to discover

I’d be putting in a few racy novels, people might enjoy them!

No, why would you? That's censorship - and the thin end of the wedge? Who gets to decide what others should read? But, if you've not read them, I wouldn't bother - not for the subject matter, but just because they're so badly written!

Pamela J1 ? you're welcome. Let sleeping dirty books lie.

Grandmabatty

If you remove them, and are spotted, EVERYONE in the village will think you are reading them. ?

OMG well thought out. We will definitely not be touching them.?

If you remove them, and are spotted, EVERYONE in the village will think you are reading them. ?

I think that the charity shops stopped accepting thembecause they were inundated with them, so someone took the chance to get rid.
I’ll leave it for the library monitor to decide.
Knowing him they will be left in situ. ? it will be interesting to see how long they last.

I expect a lot goes on behind closed doors in ‘sleepy villages’

That could be the thin end of the wedge, as it were - you’d then have to make judgements on every book as to whether they were racist, classist, anti women, anti men, etc etc.....

I'm afraid, with my sense of humour, and if the said library was/is in a sleepy village, I'd be laughing my head off.
Sounds like a Carry-on film. I can picture the pursed lips, then again they could be minx's on the quiet.

It’s not to my taste, coercive control has never appealed to me, but if it’s popular with your customers then I’d leave it.

No, it would be available in your library!