Life Line Book Fair
Jan. 29th, 2003 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilWell I spent three hours on Monday at the Life Line Book fair - an awesome event where they pile a whole buck of used books onto tables and donate all the money to Life Line.
On Monday, in the un-priced books section, the deal was one plastic bag of books for $5, and 5 bags for $20.
I took two bags, thinking I'd never get everything I wanted into them, but it was worth a try.
My mistake here was to make a beeline for the kids books section - the best collection of books that I borrowed out of libraries in my childhood. I ended up with a full hardback colection of the 'What Katy Did' books, a Trixie Belden, two Naughtiest Girl books, two Ramona books, five Paula Danziger books, Playing Beattie Bow and a couple of others. Then I picked up Strunk and White, a dictionary (I didn't have one), and an encyclopaeidic dictionary, and a couple of education books. And I'd only just started on the second bag - so I hit the National Geographics, picking up a large pile that dealt with Ancient History and America.
It was awesome. And if you calculate a worth of about $5 on each book - a collection of books worth $220.
On Monday, in the un-priced books section, the deal was one plastic bag of books for $5, and 5 bags for $20.
I took two bags, thinking I'd never get everything I wanted into them, but it was worth a try.
My mistake here was to make a beeline for the kids books section - the best collection of books that I borrowed out of libraries in my childhood. I ended up with a full hardback colection of the 'What Katy Did' books, a Trixie Belden, two Naughtiest Girl books, two Ramona books, five Paula Danziger books, Playing Beattie Bow and a couple of others. Then I picked up Strunk and White, a dictionary (I didn't have one), and an encyclopaeidic dictionary, and a couple of education books. And I'd only just started on the second bag - so I hit the National Geographics, picking up a large pile that dealt with Ancient History and America.
It was awesome. And if you calculate a worth of about $5 on each book - a collection of books worth $220.
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on 2003-01-28 05:51 pm (UTC)Also, your icon? Kicks ass.
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on 2003-01-28 05:56 pm (UTC)And thank you. It was hard to give up the 'Her teachers called it the Melina' icon though.