True, I tend to check out older ones. Lately I have been going thru Graham Greene novels.

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True, but I have not had this happen yet. If it does, a three week loan period will mean only a week or two overdue at $.10 per day. Still cheaper than a new paperback.

Like many previous posters, I too love library sales. I think we need Library Sale Day carols to help us celebrate the day(s).

But the best deal I ever found was just before Christmas one year in Asheville, NC. The library there had received a donation of 50,000 brand new paperbacks of all types from Penguin Books, and they offered them all like a book sale, except that every book (as many as you cared to take) was free!. And then the next year, about the same time, Penguin donated another truckload of books, and the whole thing was repeated. Sadly, it did not become an annual tradition.

I haunt the thrift stores and resale shops for used books. One that I frequent has a .10 sale twice a year. Everything in the store is a dime. I clean out their bookshelves. When I am in another city, I look for these kinds of places. My biggest problem is that, unlike all the other junk in my life, I will not part with a book. I have boxes and stacks and bags and OMG! Books!

I'm almost ashamed to say, in front of such library fans, that I haven't updated my library card in 10 years. That is not to say that I haven't been in it, I just haven't borrowed a book in that time.