My book sale responsibilities included announcing the sale on Facebook, recruiting help from my charitable friends to sort through the library's old and/or unneeded books, and organizing the many books that had been donated to the library. The newer, more popular, and better quality books were sold inside (hardcovers 3 for $1, paperbacks 8 for $1) and the older, more beat-up books were sold outside ($1 for as many books as you can fit into a bag/box) . I am happy to report that, despite our daily evening thunderstorms, the book sale was a huge success.
In the course of hauling, sorting, boxing, rehauling, unboxing, resorting, stacking, and selling a few thousand books, we came across quite a few interesting items. So, in an attempt to drum up business for additional sales, I am going to share just a few of those interesting items with you.
Now, before we start perusing these impressive publications, I would like to state for the record that we sold a lot of really good books. Really nice, really popular, really current, really well-known books over the course of the sale. Really. We did.
But we also sold things like this rockin' aerobic record from the early 80's. People also donated old videos (a whole collection of Little House on the Prairie on VHS), including some tapes that they had made themselves. While we appreciated the thought, the homemade videos ended up being tossed out because, if we have learned anything from the Paris Hiltons of the world it is that people often make poor, poor choices about what kinds of things should be captured on film. That was a risk we just weren't willing to take.
There were so many donations to sort through, we had to enlist some extra help to get everything done. The Elders currently serving in our area had a blast sorting through and organizing all of the donated Church books. Emily Barnes found a book written by her evil twin. And Katie found... well... lets just say that Katie came away from her book sorting experience with a lot of new information.
The dollar-a-bag books were by far the most interesting to sort. It was a blast to explore the different interests of the residents of our valley.
Sometimes sorting the books required a lot of thought. For example, would it be offensive to atheists if we shelved a book on Atheism in the religion section?
As a teacher of literature, some books' titles really stood out to me .
And some really, really stood out.
Some books stood out so much that I just couldn't resist buying them. I ended up with two bags full of mostly older books, like the Missionary Pal from 1959 and a cute little collection of readings and activities for the last day of school that had been published in 1934.
I'm looking forward flipping through this little gem. I wish President Sagers was still teaching institute. It would have been a BLAST to discuss its many levels of wrongness with him.
But my best purchase by far turned out to be a book that the other members of the friends of the library board found to be....umm... lets just say they were less than impressed it it. I, on the other hand, was smitten.It was just something that I had to own. In fact, I may have to buy a house just so I can buy a coffee table just so I can display this book at all times.
The dollar-a-bag books were by far the most interesting to sort. It was a blast to explore the different interests of the residents of our valley.
Sometimes sorting the books required a lot of thought. For example, would it be offensive to atheists if we shelved a book on Atheism in the religion section?
As a teacher of literature, some books' titles really stood out to me .
And some really, really stood out.
Some books stood out so much that I just couldn't resist buying them. I ended up with two bags full of mostly older books, like the Missionary Pal from 1959 and a cute little collection of readings and activities for the last day of school that had been published in 1934.
I'm looking forward flipping through this little gem. I wish President Sagers was still teaching institute. It would have been a BLAST to discuss its many levels of wrongness with him.
But my best purchase by far turned out to be a book that the other members of the friends of the library board found to be....umm... lets just say they were less than impressed it it. I, on the other hand, was smitten.It was just something that I had to own. In fact, I may have to buy a house just so I can buy a coffee table just so I can display this book at all times.
Unfortunately, I think my choice to add it to the "Save for Mindy" pile during the initial sorting may have caused a bit of a scandal in our little group wherein the median age is 70.
Behold:
I kind of doubt I will be asked to host any "Friends of the Library" dinner parties in the near future, but I'm ok with that. Its a shame this book was no where to be found when Timbri asked me to do a cooking demonstration for Relief Society, but I have high hopes for our old single adult potluck dinners.
