Re: I love used book sales

In article <fu7rbq$m9d$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel)
writes:
>In article <fu6***$62a$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Evelyn C. Leeper <eleeper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> The East Brunswick FotL does not have a "Box and Bag Day"; instead,
>>> non-profit organizations can make arrangements ahead of time to
>>> come after the sale closes and take what they want for free.
>>
>>I'm not sure I want to know what happens to books that aren't taken
>>by the end of a sale.
>
>They are given to a nice farm family far far away, farther than you
>can get to.  It's a very very nice place where the temperature and
>humidity are moderate and constant and direct sunlight never reaches
>the books.  There are lots of nice librarians who repair them to be
>like new and catalog them and put them on beautiful shelves.  There
>are no winters there, and nobody ever tears the books or bends the
>corners.  The books play all day in the fields with Aristotle's
>Eudemus, Byron's memoirs, and Shakespeare's Cardenio.
>
>
>(Tip o' the nib to
><http://www.theonion.com/content/news/packers_tell_fans_they_gave_favre>
>and
><http://www.amazon.com/Book-Lost-Books-Incomplete-History/dp/1400062977>
>)

Very nicely done; it brings a tear to this old bibliophile's eye.

-- Alan