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Travelodge Releases Annual List of Most-Discarded Books in Hotel Rooms

September 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM | 1 Comment

You have to feel sorta bad for the unfortunate dude who leaves behind both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How to be a Gentleman in Seven Days at a Travelodge. (So many unanswered questions!)

Leave it to Travelodge Hotels to monitor -- and report -- such activity (and, ahem, leave it to us to poke fun at it).

Indeed, the U.K. budget chain just released its annual list of books abandoned in hotel rooms at 336 properties, and while this year's 7,000 discarded titles were mostly autobiographies (John Prescott's memoir tops the list), chick lit, and thrillers, a healthy sprinkling of sex manuals also made the list, like The Best 50 Love Making Positions for the Over 50s.

Travelodge even goes so far as to apply a little Psych 101 musing to the findings: Cardiff and London hotel guests are more likely to discard cash-saving books, perhaps revealing despair at the wallet-damaging cost of city life, while do-gooder Cornwell guests leave behind titles with a spiritual bent.

That's interesting and all, but wethinks Travelodge might stick to what they do best -- offering bizarro perks, incubating nude sleepwalkers, and launching recycled hotels.