The bookstore of Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library, Hilltop Books, is a lovely community bookstore that I enjoy and appreciate. I’m a library fiend, too - cleaning the library shelves and facing out eye-catching titles I’ve taken pride in.
But to what extent has the bookstore been financially benefiting the Chestnut Hill library?
“If the store manages to meet overhead and labor costs, I would consider that a financial success,” I wrote in a letter to the Local posted on Dec. 30, 2020. Looking at the tax forms filed by the Friends with the IRS has …
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The bookstore of Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library, Hilltop Books, is a lovely community bookstore that I enjoy and appreciate. I’m a library fiend, too - cleaning the library shelves and facing out eye-catching titles I’ve taken pride in.
But to what extent has the bookstore been financially benefiting the Chestnut Hill library?
“If the store manages to meet overhead and labor costs, I would consider that a financial success,” I wrote in a letter to the Local posted on Dec. 30, 2020. Looking at the tax forms filed by the Friends with the IRS has me wondering anew.
If I could have only one question answered, it is this: How many pennies on the dollar I spend at Hilltop Books goes to the Chestnut Hill Library?
Brian Rudnick
Chestnut Hill
