Well, this is nice for a change. It seems a group of Seattle Reddit users just disproved the long-standing theory that everyone on the Internet is a grumpy jerk.

Seattle Pulp reports a Seattle-area high school teacher asked folks on Reddit to lend his students the first installment of the popular “Hunger Games” trilogy — more on how much Seattle loves that here. And now, each of his students has their own copy.

“I think the idea worked because kids reading is a pretty easy campaign to support,” teacher Tristan Conley told Seattle Pulp. “Plus a lot of people bought the box set when all three books finally came out so they had a spare first book to unload.”

Well, it’s still a nice thought — whether they were looking to “unload” a book or not.

Read more via SeattlePulp.

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