Jackpot!

[resqgeek]

Each spring, the Friends of the Arlington County Library have a huge weekend long book sale to raise funds for the coming year. On Monday, following the sale, they offer the leftover books, free of charge to anyone who can carry them off. We missed the book sale, as we were in Williamsburg over the weekend, but that didn't stop me from having my wife pick me up and take me up to the Central Library this morning. We spent about an hour filling boxes with books and piling them into the back of my wife's car. When we left, the car was filled from the back of the front seats to the rear hatch, up to the tops of the seat backs. The car was probably dangerously overweight, and I'm going to be registering books for weeks, I'm sure.

I did this last year, and registered over 700 books. I still haven't released all the books from last year, but my wife (no I'm not making this up!) insisted that we go back and restock. She has no problem with me releasing books that I get for free, and this way she doesn't have to worry about me feeling like I need to buy books to release. I would guess that we grabbed more than 500 books, but the final tally will have to wait until I finish registering them.

Comments

[wyldanthem.livejournal.com]

HOLY MOSES! That's awesome!

For the locals: Which library and will there still be books there around 5p.m.? *grin*

[wyldanthem.livejournal.com]

Ah, Central Library. Gotcha. I was so dazzled by the number of books that I didn't see "Central" in there! ;)

[resqgeek]

There should be books available for another day or two. This is the Central Branch of the Arlington Library, on N. Quincy Street, two blocks north of Fairfax Dr., in the Ballston area of Arlington. The books are on the top level of the parking garage, but are fenced off, and I don't know what hours they will have the area open (it opened at 10am this morning).

BTW - They have a set of bookshelves in the G2 elevator lobby in the garage, which they normally keep stocked with books that are free for the taking.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Your wife is a saint!

At the moment I've got more books than I know what to do with...

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should try selling them?

;-)

[suellenr.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe it's been a year since you last did this. And I still haven't swapped books w/you, most of which I wanted were from your last snatch & grab. *headdesk*