Before the days of Harry Potter, there lived a book so integrated into our culture we all had a copy on our bookshelves. Our parents read it, our friends read it, and we read it. And now, it would seem, everyone in Swansea, Wales, has read it too. Only problem is, they don't want it anymore.
A charity shop located in Swansea, Wales, is urging people to stop donating The Da Vinci Code after receiving a ton of the books over the past few months. The Oxfam shop have reportedly received an average of one copy of the novel, written by Dan Brown, for months.
Released back in 2003, the book has sold around 80 million copies worldwide. Shop manager Phil Broadhurst told The Telegraph that ‘they get one copy of the book every day.’ And that they ‘still occasionally get people buying them but we would rather have records. Our sale of them have increased 25 per cent in the last year.’
The shop has even had a put a sign urging people to donate records over the popular book among a pile of the novel due to being so inundated. So, if anyone planned on popping to their local charity shop with their copy of The Da Vicni code, you might want to think again and donate something else instead. Keep hold of it, you never know it might come in handy one day…maybe.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.