Quartely Book Sale

Today was the quarterly book sale for the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library, an organization that we joined about a year and a half ago.
One of the main fundraising activities of the Friends is selling used books at ridiculously low prices. We used to have an annual sale in some city parks and recreation space next to one of the uptown libraries but the hassle of moving books from a warehouse to the library/parks space for the sale and back again afterward just got too much to handle. So we decided to skip the moving and just hold the sale at the warehouse.
As you can see we had thousands of books on sale for 50 cents to $2 each. All the space in the warehouse was filled with tables which were filled with books and boxes of books were stored under each table, enough to completely replace the books on top 2 or 3 times as they were sold.
There were also hundreds of people scooping up and buying 2 books to 200 books. I tallied up the book bill for one customer who was buying 171 books but some of my colleagues did even better with some customers carting away 10 or 15 boxes of books.
I was supposed to be a cashier but they needed talliers even more, especially when we got very busy. The people who were keeping track of the sales indicated that we'll probably bring in $15,000 for the weekend. At $0.50 to $2 a book, that's a lot of books.

The Friends will then turn around and donate the money to the library for Childrens Programs (clowns, magic show, readers, poets, etc.), literacy programs, and books and materials. I think it's a worthwhile cause.