CRESTVIEW — A throng of booklovers and a new venue made last weekend’s Friends of the Crestview Library Book Sale one of its most successful events to date, organizers said.
The three-day sale — which featured hardbacks and paperbacks, DVDs, VHS tapes, audio books and CDs — raised $3,350 at its Warriors Hall location, event chairwoman Dot Moxcey said. Proceeds help purchase unbudgeted equipment and books for the Crestview Public Library.
Residents came prepared and, in many cases, returned for seconds.
Trudy and Gerald Mixon filled up a large department store shopping bag the Friends provided and headed back to get another.
“He reads everything from Stephen King to true crime. Everything,” Trudy said of her husband. “I’ll walk by and see him reading something weird and say, ‘How can you read that?’”
The library isn’t the sale’s only beneficiary. Waterfront Rescue Mission sells “two or three van-loads” of unsold books to support its community outreach services, Moxcey said.
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