Books!

[mycenae]

My local library is having a book sale right now. The public libraries here always have a small nook or room where they sell donated books, but once every few months they stick all of their backlog of donations in bins in a big room and open it to the public. Book sale! It's like a crack den. $1 for trades and hardcovers, 5/$1 mass market

Comments

[spectralbovine]

Oooh, awesome, library book sales rule.

And I read Perdido Street Station a few years ago. Hope you like it!

[therrin]

Those are some ambitious books there. I don't know if anything could make me read Diamond Age.

I salute you.

Good luck.

[newtoniancat]

Diamond Age is a great book. Of course, I thought Cryptonomicon was also a great book.

Your mileage may vary.

I want my own household fab, damnit!

[masanori]

That is a very good list! I'm jealous. I wonder if my libraries has any similar sales ever.

[caveat_lect0r]

Nice! I love getting free/almost free books from my library.

[theniwokesoftly]

Oh yeah! Last time, I got some sight-singing books that went from fairly easy to insanely difficult, a replacement copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (I wanted one with the mistake in it like my ruined copy, and I found a first printing for $4.50), a few mass market classics to send my brother for cheap, Middlesex, and other stuff. I like the foreign language section. This time they have a sale, I am so buying something in Russian!

And our library doesn't always save donations for the sale- for instance, I donated the whole Twilight series just days after Breaking Dawn came out. I'm fairly sure that those went into circulation after being processed.