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Tag Archives: Orchard Park Library Book Sale
The Season
Christmas has come and gone for another year, as it always does. As always, it was full of a lot of beauty and a little stuff that wasn’t so beautiful, but we’ll concentrate on the good, OK? Because I’m sure … Continue reading
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Ye Olde Booke Haule
Ye Olde Booke Haule, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. The other day was the quarterly Used Book Sale at the local library, which I honored as I usually do by filling a box with books for about $15. I’m telling you, … Continue reading
Monty Haul 9-09
This weekend saw my local library’s quarterly Used Book Sale, and as always, I was there when the doors opened to rush in and grab my fair share of the booky goodness. While this iteration was spectacularly unsuccessful from the … Continue reading
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Books! Books! Books!
Book sale haul!, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. This weekend marks the quarterly Used Book Sale at my local public library, and this photo shows the books I bought for myself. (There were other things for The Wife and The Daughter.) … Continue reading
Monty Haul
Book Sale, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. OK, we’ve established in the past that I live for the quarterly used book sale at the Orchard Park library. (See here and here for representative posts.) My methodology is usually to pick out … Continue reading
Save the Books!
Yesterday was my favorite quarterly event: the Book Sale at my local public library. I adore this sale! And as usual, my haul amounted to under ten bucks. Here is just the stuff I got for myself: I’m not sure … Continue reading
Monty Haul
Yesterday was my local library’s quarterly used book sale, an event that always fills my heart with joy and my arms with pain (from lugging out a huge number of books). The pickings this time weren’t as good from the … Continue reading
O for a bunch of shelves!
Today was the quarterly Used Book Sale at the local library. I always find some treasures there — and even treasures within the treasures themselves — but today was an even better haul than usual, with far better pickings in … Continue reading
Reaching across time
For all the dreamy talk about electronic books and how some day when the Technowhizkids figure out how to make a “screen” that has about as close a tactile and visual appeal to actual paper all the traditional bound books … Continue reading