tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27448101.post1067013197973758793..comments2024-03-28T22:58:27.320-05:00Comments on One Gal's Musings: Dirty booksThe Gal Herselfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566779726191649848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27448101.post-54201578706155014072018-07-19T08:59:50.871-05:002018-07-19T08:59:50.871-05:00I miss book sales and browsing used book stores. ...I miss book sales and browsing used book stores. But I can't give up my Nook! I love it more!Kwizgiverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030855903021576354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27448101.post-54710507414262177612018-07-19T05:35:21.592-05:002018-07-19T05:35:21.592-05:00How fun! The book sales at the local libraries are...How fun! The book sales at the local libraries are among my favorite summer events. My mom (a former librarian) volunteers at our local high school library's event (it's also the community library). All of the volunteers are aging and not wanting to do as much or not able to so they are limiting donations to fiction. I think it's a mistake. They used to make a lot of sales to home schooling families when they accepted textbooks. They'd prefer no biographies, cookbooks, or well, anything but fiction. They always get some of the other which they put on "FREE" tables with a donation jar. This year's fiction was pretty predictable...virtually all of the paperbacks were romances and the hardbacks were all from a handful of best selling authors or complete unknowns. The reason for the limits on the donations is supposedly the difficulty in getting rid of the unsold books. They used to just give them to another library's book sale, but that library stopped having sales. However, I heard the president of the organization of volunteers saying that they would be sending the books to two different libraries this year, one had had a fire and lost their entire collection. Surely there are other libraries that could use help each year? Anyway, good on you for volunteering and sweet getting paid in books!Stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316595488903619354noreply@blogger.com