We finally had our booksale on Saturday and it was a great success. The Friends of the Library worked hard all day Friday setting it up and turned up again on Saturday to sell, sell, sell....
Minor disagreements at the end of the day when the Friends could not bear the thought of 'all those good books' going to the recycler. We finally compromised sending 3/4 of the remaining stock to the recyling depot and keeping the best 1/4 for sale later. Even the chap at the recycling depot tried to make us feel guilty ...didn't work. Why can't he see that old worn out English language text books that are too old for Australians are of no use to 'poor people overseas'. It is gratifying to see the respect people like this have for books but it also indicates they cannot discern what is of value and what is outdated or just unsuitable.
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