Fall 2018
The other evening I went to the used book sale held at the local library (the sales are held twice each year). I usually expect to pick up three or four worthy titles, but this time I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a collection of sc-fi paperbacks, all only for a dollar and all in very good / nearly new condition (these are not library books being put up for sale, but donations from library patrons).
Most of the attendees are elderly people, as well as moms looking to pick up books for their kids.
Then there are the Professionals, who arrive toting boxes and smart phones so they can do on-the-spot price calculations and then grab literally pounds of hardback books, which they sell online.
Then there are the eccentrics, who smell like disused closets, and wear clothes (usually flannel shirts) covered with pet hair and food and beverage stains. They walk around hunched over, and avoid eye contact. These people often are Hoarders, and they leave with piles and piles of books with which to clutter their houses.
Anyways, aside from making supercilious judgments about the other customers, this visit proved to me that sometimes these library book sales can be well worth visiting.
The other evening I went to the used book sale held at the local library (the sales are held twice each year). I usually expect to pick up three or four worthy titles, but this time I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a collection of sc-fi paperbacks, all only for a dollar and all in very good / nearly new condition (these are not library books being put up for sale, but donations from library patrons).
Most of the attendees are elderly people, as well as moms looking to pick up books for their kids.
Then there are the Professionals, who arrive toting boxes and smart phones so they can do on-the-spot price calculations and then grab literally pounds of hardback books, which they sell online.
Then there are the eccentrics, who smell like disused closets, and wear clothes (usually flannel shirts) covered with pet hair and food and beverage stains. They walk around hunched over, and avoid eye contact. These people often are Hoarders, and they leave with piles and piles of books with which to clutter their houses.
Anyways, aside from making supercilious judgments about the other customers, this visit proved to me that sometimes these library book sales can be well worth visiting.
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