Every media outlet now forecasts a weather front that’s out on the California coast to traipse across the continent to Florida and then veer north — as if running on rails — rendering everything from DC to Boston buried by snow.

During storms and the aftermath when travel is still difficult, the Griffith Street Council on Intellectual Fitness recommends the stockpiling of three books per family member “as a minimum.”

Preparation is key! Friday afternoon — well before the predicted blustery wallop — go to Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St. to make certain that you’ve got plenty to read. And do be considerate; pick up a couple of extra books for your neighbors — particularly the seniors.

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Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation, registration or indoctrination. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Many books are available

Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families. A wide-distribution magazine recently listed us as a tourist destination! In addition to the local community, we’ve provided books for a school in the Philippines, a shelter in Camden, a mission in Africa and a student film in New York City. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books.

More information — including the current schedule — is available at the Web Site:
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

A Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise Youtube has only 3 views after over a year while one Instigatorzine did with me’s got over 1,200? I should run for office!

I’m already working on my victory speech:
“To everyone who voted for me, I want to say this: Whatever were you thinking? And — I promise — over the next four years you will ask yourself that very same question each and every day.”

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Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation, registration or indoctrination. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Many books are available

Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families. A wide-distribution magazine recently listed us as a tourist destination! In addition to the local community, we’ve provided books for a school in the Philippines, a shelter in Camden, a mission in Africa and a student film in New York City. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books.

More information — including the current schedule — is available at the Web Site:
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

A common query at Jersey City Free Books – generally posed in an accusatory tone – is “What does the City give you to do this?” As Municipal support has been noted only by its absence, this is always good for a laugh. But that’s a lot better than what the County is giving us now: a hard time.

Last Thursday, Jersey City Free Books received a visit from someone identifying himself as an employee of Hudson County Engineering. He informed us that Project Coordinator Jack Dempsey declared that giving away books on the corner of Kennedy and Griffith must stop. The explanation was that a drunk might walk into a table of books and so sustain injuries. Also, the civil rights of pedestrians were violated by forcing them to encounter books. He added that these grave problems might be made to go away by the purchase of a permit – the same one required for contractors excavating a sidewalk.

Is it right that free books should be treated like digging a hole?

Update!

With the help of Ward D Councilman Michael Yun, the issue appears to be resolved!. Weather permitting, the books again will be on the corner of Kennedy Blvd and Griffith during the times listed at the Main Page of the Web Site.

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Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St. is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation, registration or indoctrination.

Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families. Thousands of books are available. A wide-distribution magazine has recently listed us as a tourist destination! In addition to the local community, we’ve provided books for a school in the Philippines, a shelter in Camden, a mission in Africa and a student film in New York City.

Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books. More information — including the current schedule — is available at the Web Site.
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

We just love every time Jersey City Free Books gets a new Like on our Facebook Page. Don’t forget to Share it with your friends, too! Facebook Reviews also are great. And when you’re in the shop, do check in at Facebook or post on Twitter to let everyone know how smart you are.

At the current time, we are NOT accepting books!

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Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St. is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation, registration or indoctrination. Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families. Thousands of books are available. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books. More information — including the current schedule — is available at the Web Site.
JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

The Facebook Page is https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.
George Orwell

This morning my mind was wandering and wondering about the great mass of worthless TED talks out on Youtube: speculations baseless and wild, intellectual parlor tricks, minor factoids contrived so as to appear to have some deep significance, and many, many other equally meaningless categories of seminars as side show.

That’s when I thought of a recent visitor to Jersey City Free Books — who quite clearly never got any closer to Cairo than Hoboken. This Miss claimed in all seriousness to have learned to speak Arabic by reading that language at age 12. And she’s not alone! There’ve been many others here with equally agitated imaginations.

Jersey City Free Books plans to launch the NQC (Not Quite Certifiable) Talks. At the very least, the time that the participants spend preparing and delivering lectures will keep them off of the streets. And just maybe someone looking out from an unusual vantage point might be able to spot something that others don’t see. And anyhow, no matter how worthless or ridiculous anything that comes out of this project turns out to be, it can’t be any worse than most TED Talks.

A crowd-sourcing platform will be announced soon. YOU can help make the NQC Talks a reality!

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Jersey City Free Books at 297 Griffith St. is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation, registration or indoctrination. Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families. Thousands of books are available. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books. More information — including the current schedule — is available at the Web Site.
JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

The Facebook Page is https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

For a limited time, LOTS of comics are available at Jersey City Free books, 297 Griffith St.

Publishers include Marvel, DC, Vertigo and many, many others. Issues range in age from very recent to some over thirty years old.

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Jersey City Free Books
297 Griffith St.
Jersey City, NJ 07307

The current schedule is at the Web Site:
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

Jersey City Free Books is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation,registration or indoctrination. Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families.

Thousands of books are available. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books.

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

Jersey City Free Books always can use donations of solid recent fiction and non-fiction, including text books less than three years old. Literary classics are always welcome. Children’s books and books of all types in languages other than English are great, too.

Here’s a Link to a PDF of a flyer for Jersey City Free Books. Please print some out and then post them at school, work, the neighborhood, whatever. If it’s possible to print a few extra and to bring them to Jersey City Free Books for us to hand out, WUNDERBAR!

http://www.jerseycityfreebooks.com/jersey_city_free_books_flyer0215.pdf

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Jersey City Free Books
297 Griffith St.
Jersey City, NJ 07307

The current schedule is at the Web Site:
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

Jersey City Free Books is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation,registration or indoctrination. Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families.

Thousands of books are available. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books.

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

Jersey City Free Books always can use donations of solid recent fiction and non-fiction, including text books less than three years old. Literary classics are always welcome. Children’s books and books of all types in languages other than English are great, too.

A number of volumes all over a hundred years old are now available at Jersey City Free Books, 297 Griffith St.

Moving to a much smaller space forced long-time residents to part with these books. Their wish is for the volumes to be rehomed and so continue to be appreciated. Jersey City Free Books will consider requests from schools, libraries, scholars and artists. Items from the collection will be distributed without charge to where they can best be used.

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Jersey City Free Books
297 Griffith St.
Jersey City, NJ 07307

The current schedule is at the Web Site:
http://JerseyCityFreeBooks.com

Jersey City Free Books is a community book store that provides something to read without charge, obligation,registration or indoctrination. Jersey City Free Books serves seniors, students, the unemployed and working families.

Thousands of books are available. Everyone is welcome to take any number of books for their reasonable, personal use. Jersey City Free Books is eager to assist local charities by providing quantities of books.

The Facebook Page is
https://www.facebook.com/JerseyCityFreeBooks

Jersey City Free Books always can use donations of solid recent fiction and non-fiction, including text books less than three years old. Literary classics are always welcome. Children’s books and books of all types in languages other than English are great, too.