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January 28, 2004
You want to hear about good book buys? I'll tell you about good book buys...
Wherever this is, (note to everyone: there should be some way for us Covbloggers and Chattabloggers to identify each other. The way I see it, if you're going to share your thoughts with us, we should be able to know who you are.) the writer speaks about a French design book bought at McKay for a dollar.
Reading this, my mind took a tangent (as it often does, though not quite as much as Dagen's) back to one of one of my favorite places/events: the yearly Lancaster Co. Library Book Sale held at Overlook Skating Rink. It's amazing - the entire skating rink is filled with tables and tables of books, stacked up to 10 high. Pretty much every genre imaginable is represented, though the country being as it is, poor quality religious books take up more space than they ought.
It's quite an event: hundreds of people mill about the rink, browsing the stacks; they carry boxes, baskets, grocery bags - anything that could bear a load of books; over a dozen volunteers work the registers non-stop.
The prices are what bring people in. All paperbacks - 50 cents. All hardcovers - 50 cents. Romance novels, detective novels - a few dollars a bag.
So anyway, all that to say, I got this book, first edition, for 50 cents.
I need to check my local paper this coming May. Hopefully, school will be out by the time that sale rolls around. Oh, and that I'll have money too...
Posted by donovan at 9:31 PM | Category: Literature
That should be "county," not "country." Whoa - check out the CSS effect on the comments page. Weird.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at January 28, 2004 10:02 PM
Who you callin' tangental?!
Posted by: nougatmachine at January 29, 2004 2:49 PM
Hey - tangentiality's a good thing. If you got it, flaunt it!
Posted by: Evan Donovan at January 29, 2004 4:41 PM