This seems to be the time of year for library book sales and this past weekend I made my way to Danbury Public Library Annual Sale up in Connecticut. I have to say it was a little overwhelming when I first walked through the doors. With over 30,000 books, this was perhaps the largest sale I have been to.
It was so large they provided each visitor with a floor
plan, which identified all of the different sections by topic, with
corresponding row numbers. I noticed they even had a designated “holding” area where
you could keep what you collected safely stored while continuing the search for
more books.
After studying the floor plan I decided to hit the children’s
book section first. These are really becoming my “go to” books since I started
working on a new body of work a couple of months ago. I love the outdated
textbooks, activity books and storybooks because of their illustrations,
typography and language.
Most of my books came from this area, but I did manage to
hit every single aisle, except for the fiction section… nothing of interest
there. On my way out a woman in line near me asked if I heard about the
Ridgefield Library book sale happening in a few weeks, which I did not. Of
course I’ll be there!
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