Having seen pictures online throughout the day of the various treasures that were being scored at the annual Friends of the Library Booksale, I decided to brave the fearsome Okie winds and head out to the Oklahoma Expo Building at the Fairgrounds to attend the famed Booksale, returning for the first time in twenty years this past Saturday afternoon.
Like a grownup version of the vaunted Scholastic Book Fair—except all the books are mostly used and, even better, extremely cheap—the Booksale is one of the more inventive ways the public library funds their programs, with nearly a million items—books, compact discs, DVDs, and so on—on sale, most likely all of them for under a dollar.