Typically when I want to update my book events for the week post I’ll just add it to the post I put up every Monday and the let readers now via twitter (@thevaletreader). But, because not everyone uses twitter and wouldn’t necessarily see the update I thought, for this update I would create a new post. Not only that but I’m incredibly embarrassed to have missed this event in the first place, more so than missing the Elizabeth Gilbert event I added to Monday’s post. I guess it’s because I think this event is a pretty big deal for readers in the bay area. So…

Thursday – Sunday, September 24-27th
@ Varying hours
- Friends of the SF Public Library is hosting their 45th Annual Big Book Sale at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. Just what is the Big Book Sale? Well… it’s over 300,000 books for $5 or less. Um, yeah, that’s awesome. They will also be selling CDs, DVDs, Books on Tape, Vinyl and other media. And, if you wait until Sunday to go everything that’s left is sold for only $1! And did I mention it’s free entry?

The great thing about this sale is that all the proceeds go to the San Francisco Library in order to provide much needed funds for education programs with the aim of providing and promoting literacy programs for children, teens and adults. This is the largest book sale on the west coast, it’s not like those one’s that used to have in elementary school, I promise.

Even if you don’t want to buy books wouldn’t it be amazing to just go and see what 300,000 books in one place looks like? Hope to see you there.

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