The Friends of the Seattle Public Library are having their spring book sale this weekend.  I'll be there, probably both days, and you should be, too, if you like book bargains.   Here are the essentials:

The Friends of The Seattle Public Library holds two major book sales each year.  At each sale, over 200,000 books and other items are offered to the general public, . . .
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Most books cost $1.00, . . .
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Book Sale hours are Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, April 23, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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The Book Sale is held in Building #30 at Warren G. Magnuson Park, Seattle.

Magnuson Park is located at 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., just northeast of the University of Washington.

I usually get there before the doors open to get a better selection, and to avoid some of the crowds.

To give you an idea of the bargains available, here's what I bought last spring.

(Do these book sales support a good cause?  At one time, I wouldn't even have thought to ask that question.  But our libraries, especially those in cities like Seattle, have become so strange that the question must be asked.  Tentatively, I would say that the public libraries, even in Seattle, are still a fine cause, net — but I am not sure that's true for the main downtown library.)