"I'm not much of a reader," Marcus said, turning the gold-edged pages. "But the paper in these... it's thin. Good for sketching."
The cardboard boxes were stacked so high in Elias’s studio apartment that they functioned as furniture. He had a bedside table made of King James Versions and a coffee table built from New Testaments. buy bibles in bulk
Elias tried. He left a stack at the park; they were gone in an hour. He left a box at the bus stop; it vanished by noon. He started leaving them in "Little Free Libraries," then at the local hospital, then at the prison outreach center. "I'm not much of a reader," Marcus said,
Two weeks ago, Elias had been tasked with a simple job for his community center: "buy bibles in bulk." But a late-night caffeine binge and a glitchy "quantity" slider on a liquidator website had turned a modest order of fifty into a shipment of five thousand. Good for sketching
But it wasn't until he met a man named Marcus that the boxes started to feel less like a mistake. Marcus was a carpenter who had lost his shop in a fire. He sat on a bench outside Elias's building every day. One afternoon, Elias handed him a copy.