When going to sales I tend to classify myself as either a reader or a collector… it all depends on the sale. Lately, at most sales, I have been more of a reader than a collector - I am just not finding as many books that I’d consider “collectible”, and this past Saturday was not much different for me. While I had a good two hours of going through books, it was a bit of a letdown - 0ut of the 30 or so books I purchased I’d say 25 are reader copies… not that I am complaining, but sometimes it feels as if the quality of the books has been decreasing at some sale in recent years (I can speculate on various reasons for this, and will do so in a future post - I am still formulating all my thoughts for one giant post about my general feelings, observations, and annoyances when it comes to book sales). It’s all good though, for I am a reader and a collector, so as long as I leave with a few books, I tend to be happy.
As far as specifics of this particular sale, - it is laid out rather nicely in an old school building which provided lots of space for browsing and even an empty gymnasium for people so tore bulk purchases at. Everything was categorized rather well, although the “newer” sections of individually priced books were sometimes a bit expensive at $4 and $5 (typical book sale prices of $.50 paperbacks and $1 hardbacks/trade paperbacks was in effect for most books). Will I go back to this sale? Yes.
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