Mark your calendar: The Times Colonist book drive and sale is just a few weeks away.
The big event of the book-lover’s season starts with the book drive on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, and continues with the book sale on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5.
On both days of the book collection weekend, we will accept donations from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Victoria Curling Club at 1952 Quadra St.
We welcome good-quality used books — but please, no encyclopedias, textbooks, magazines, directories, outdated reference works, Reader’s Digest condensed books or National Geographics.
Ditto for anything dog-eared, moldy, smelly or otherwise in poor condition. It costs us money to recycle what we cannot sell – money that should be going to school libraries and literacy organizations.
To speed the donation process, please pack your books in boxes or bags that you don’t want back. Also, it would be appreciated if those boxes were light enough for volunteers to lift.
After the books arrive, a small army of volunteers will get to work, sorting them in preparation for the sale.
On the sale weekend, doors will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, and 9-5 on Sunday, May 5.
Money raised through the book sale is matched, in part, by provincial government funds via Decoda Literacy Solutions. The money raised (almost $7 million since the first TC book sale in 1998) goes to literacy on Vancouver Island.
