Another interesting donation

We get some unusual donations now and then, usually (we assume) from people cleaning out their house or their parents' house, who don't look through the whole box.  Things like old alarm clocks, handsets to portable phones, old pictures, etc.  Last week, we got a brick, but the winner so far has to be the urn of pet ashes.

Bookmarks

Neat bookmarks from the "Free bookmarks" box.  We do a quick flip through most books to  make sure pages aren't loose, etc. and come up with a lot of bookmarks.  (And other odd things.

 

This one may be my favorite, it's a couple of layers of papercrafting. 

Treasure: Pop-up Banjo Paterson

I found this little treasure in the donations yesterday:

 A pop-up "Waltzing Matilda" by Banjo Paterson.  Circa 1980s, and oddly it claims to have been printed in Columbia, which I assume is a misprint of Colombia.

Odd bookmarks

Today's odd bookmark: 

In a copy of Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets (HB, no dust jacket), someone was using a brochure for endoscopy services as a bookmark. 

Wish I'd taken a picture of it before I tossed it in the recycle bin, and the new bin was too deep for me to grab it back out.  Oh well.

Welcome

Welcome to the new blog.  This one is to keep track of stories and other interesting anecdotes related to books, specifically with the books I deal with in my volunteer job, which is sorting book donations for the local Friends of the Library group.  There are too many things I don't want to forget.