So there I was walking through an up-market residential area with my family yesterday, when we happened upon a skip (dumpster) at the side of the kerb. Glancing in as we passed, I was stopped in my tracks when I spotted among the builder’s rubble and various other household ‘junk’, these two volumes looking forlorn and abandoned.
Shock quickly gave way to thoughts of liberation and I side-stepped towards the skip. After digging them out and brushing off the brick dust, I noted that aside from a very slight amount of rain damage the books were in perfect condition. I had an interest in both titles (what’s the chances of that?) so I decided that I would indeed liberate them.
Walking away with bookish salvage in hand my daughter was mortified that I would do such a thing, and she ordered me through snarling teeth to put the books back. I resisted! I explained to her that I was doing nothing wrong, and if anyone should be ashamed then it should be those who threw the books away in the first place. For dramatic effect I even stated that what those people did was only one step away from Nazi book burning 
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So two books rescued from premature burial, and although I don’t make a habit of diving into skips on a daily basis, it’s something I’d do it again tomorrow if it meant saving decent works of literature from such an unimaginable fate.
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You did the right thing!