I give my spare books to a local pub/cafe that caters to s-f/fantasy/gaming fans. They have loads of s-f and fantasy books and magazines on the shelves, maps of Middle Earth, Warhammer world and Westeros on the walls, that kind of stuff.
Amazing
No wonder that it's the place where I meet my nerdy friends almost every Thursday evening. Not to mention that they also have a great range of original beers from small breweries.

! What is this magical place? That sounds amazing!
Madness - I have, like, 40 big thrash bags of books on my shelves (that was 2 years ago, when we decided to have our walls painted and had to take the books off the shelves and put them into bags). But for example, when I got married, it turned out I have similar literary taste to my husband (well, no wonder), so we had a lot of duplicates. And these we took to the pub.
That's cool. There is a take one/leave one shelf a coffee shop I like to frequent and I leave Bakker books there - I only have four copies of TWP left to leave

(though, I've never take a book).
I should have taken a picture of the pile before I put it in storage. Oh well... It's been a busy weekend of socializing and getting prepared to head back to the part of Canada that is firmly stuck in 'Merica.
Also, Wilshire, I learned that it actually would have been feasible to stick a box on a greyhound - after my books were locked away in my friend's storage

. I wish you could have enjoyed them for the summer.
Microbrews as well?! Thats really not even fair. I've never even heard of a place that is anything close to that.
+1 - Most of my nerd-type friends (I never get the distinction right) aren't big drinkers either

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Well, there is a Mana Bar in town but that's for Gamer kids imo.
What the fuck, Canada... That's it. I'm opening something like this... a boozy coffee shop with lots of book shelves and board games. It's going on the To-Do List. If I have it my way, there will a smoking patio

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EDIT: K, sorry, real off-topic.
For the record, the first non-school book I'm reading is a recently released textbook on sociology.
Global Sociology - Cohen & Kennedy