SOME HEROES WEAR DUST JACKET?

Much as I like to do heroic things, I am not one to declare myself a hero, but I like to make jokes and puns.  The typical superheroes, at least in the Western Hemisphere such as those in the Marvel or D.C. universe, wear capes.  Batman, Superman, Thor, you know the drill.  The saying goes "not all superheroes wear capes", meaning some people do heroic work but are just normal people.

This past friday the 6th of March 2026, a member in my Buy Nothing group alerted the group that somebody dumped a few bundles of books at the base of the Little Free Library on 15th Avenue between 84th and 85th Streets.  She already took some but there are many left, in four or five neatly tied bundles, and the Little Library itself was pretty full.  The Library is in front of a medical office, but, I just checked, back in 2024 the building was occupied by the United Chinese Association of Brooklyn.

Whatever the business, if the books were left alone at some point they will resemble garbage.  The business will not like that and will treat them as such.  Besides, it may rain the next day and the books would be ruined.  To a book lover like me, that is unacceptable.  On my way home, I got off the highway one stop early and went a little bit out of the way to rescue them.  The bundles of books were still there, some bundles probably had books take out of them so the strings couldn't keep the books together.  I rescued them all, about 30 books.  Over the weekend, I added them to a catalog in LibraryThing that I named BuyNothing20260306 and shared a link with the Buy Nothing group (Bath Beach/Gravesend).

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In recent memory, this is the third time I rescued books.  Before this incident, someone asked the local library if they take old books.  It's an old policy, they don't.  Or at least not the local branches.  You would have to go to the Central Library by Grand Army Plaza, I think.  The nice thing to do with all those books is to find someone who may want them.  But this person wasn't interested in doing the right thing.  They just left a Target shopping cart with two big boxes of children's books.  The librarian lamented about the situation on social media.  Once I found out, I took possession of the cart and put the books away in a safe place, away from the element.  The next day, I returned the cart to Target at Caesar's Bay.  Over the next few days, I shared some of the books with a few members of my Buy Nothing group.  On the 5th of March, I happened to visit an LFL in Jersey City that was mostly empty.  In went all the remaining books from the loot, about 30 of them.

Before the Library incident, there was a Curb Abandonment alert about books on 65th Street near West 1st Street.  For that incident, I left the house early and was able to rescue the three bags of books.

All this book-rescuing work, I would like to come up with a catch alias.  The Book Rescuer is too obvious, I prefer something that, even if contrived, present a little puzzle.  Maybe a tongue-twister or some alliteration.  Got to think hard about this...