Today / tonight at the Vons by our house they had another one of those awesome charity book sale things, where people donate a whole bunch of books and you can pick them up for really cheap ($1 for all soft covers, $2 for hardcovers).
The stock at the one today was the largest I’d ever seen: many regular size cardboard boxes full of books of all varieties (like they usually have), and then several huge (probably 6′ X 6′ X 3′) filled-to-the-top bins of random books that I didn’t take the time to literally dig through, since the books were just piled up inside those.
Here are some gems I scored:
- Running Linux – O’Reilly – cover price: $34.95
- Javascript Bible – IDG – cover price: $49.99
- Javascript, The Definitive Guide – O’Reilly – cover price: $39.95
- Core Java 2 – Sun Microsystems – cover price: $42.99
$168 worth of books for $4; not too shabby. These are the same books that are still sitting on the shelves at B&N, etc. at full cover price.
I probably won’t even get much use out of them, in terms of learning new stuff (especially on the Java and Javascript ones), but I just couldn’t resist that price, and they may be useful to keep around for future reference or lending out to other people.
they don’t do that at our ” new ” vons in oxnard.
They don’t do it all the time at this one either, I’ve only seen it twice. This one was a lot bigger than last time, though.
is it the vons near buena? will it happen again this sat.?
The usally have them there quite a few weeks in a row.
Yes, it’s that Vons. I don’t know whether there’s any regular schedule or anything though.
small world, Kathy bought a book there for me to read to Lexi.
getting dizzy with the blog jumping.