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Donate books?
the kleine sprachenbörse at stadtbibliothek wedding takes everything, they've got a whole shelf of spanish novels growing. just ring the bell at the back entrance during lunch hours, the lady there is super chill about it
honestly your best bet is probably the Berliner Stadtbibliothek in Mitte, they have a whole section for international literature and take donations in spanish. the one on Breite Straße near the S-Bahn has a little drop-off box by the entrance
if that doesn't work try the book boxes at the U-Bahn stations, there's a big one at Hermannplatz that always gets swapped around. just leave em in there and someone will pick them up within a day or two
try the international library at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek near Hallesches Tor. they have a dedicated section for spanish literature and take donations all year round. just bring them to the info desk during opening hours, they'll sort through what they want and pass the rest on to other libraries
if you're in neukölln there's also the bookshop at Maybachufer where they do language-specific exchanges. the owner speaks spanish herself and might take the kids books for her little reading corner
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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