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Books Travelers Are Always Leaving Behind at Their Hotels

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26 pointsThevet16 comments

This recent list of books left behind at hotels seems to correlate with a list of best-selling books available at around the same time?

Who'd have thought?

It's like those "prevalence of X" maps that roughly correspond with population density maps.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

Pet peeve #208:

Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps

Websites that visitors are always leaving behind include those that autoplay video.

These books are from the folks who stay at Travelodge - a budget chain. I wonder what books more high end chains are finding as demographics shift.

More affluent readers probably use e-ink devices and therefore are probably less likely to leave anything behind.

I bet they have a nice collection of chargers.

Same books, just hardcover.

Probably just e-readers.

Cached copy without all that tracking cookie opt-in/out malarky:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eSAV6-...

> all that tracking cookie opt-in/out malarky

Since GDPR, this is really getting out of hand...

I know, it's really quite infuriating and some of the dialogues are verging on "dark pattern" behaviour.

So what does Travelodge do with all those books? I've stayed at various UK Travelodges many times and never seen a book. Surely they could just leave the books in the rooms. 70k books is enough for every one of there rooms to have several books.

You can’t leave what is effectively other guests’ lost property in the room.

I worked for a hotel company once and I can't speak for books but phone chargers were kept in boxes in the housekeeper's office; lots of 'em.

If you plan to leave books behind, consider using bookcrossing: http://www.bookcrossing.com/

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