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General book sale. The books offered at each sale come from the previous six months’ donations. Every sale starts from scratch! After each sale, volunteers spend a day taking unsold books from the shelves and filling enormous boxes (see photo above: using FOL volunteer Barbara Need, front left, in the teal apron, as a unit of measurement, each of the boxes is nearly one Barbara tall) with them for delivery to Thrift Books. Some of these books are donated to charities dedicated to fighting illiteracy: through the efforts of Thrift Books and its not-for-profit literacy partners more than a million books have been donated and distributed to countries in Africa and Asia. Others are sold via the Thrift Books online store: a percentage of the proceeds from these sales comes back the the Friends, where it helps support libraries and charitable organizations in Tompkins County. |