The Seattle Public Library's always-incredible book sale is this weekend. Get familiar. If you're a member, you actually want to be going tonight to cherry-pick and maybe score something in the auction [I'd be going for the LE Ten Poets: Seattle from '62].

I'll be going and I'll take pictures - looking forward to kicking the tires on Squarespace's gallery features - but felt I needed to give everyone a day's fair warning. Go. I know it looks far out on the map, but it's an airplane hangar full of $1 paperbacks.

Boring Times article [press release, really] sez:

More than 250,000 items: books, CDs, records, videos, art prints, posters and sheet music will be offered at bargain prices.

Protips: If you're going tonight and registering, try to save $15 by printing out the form and swinging by Central and asking nice. It's worked before. Bring your own boxes and bags, and bring a friend. Everything that's not books will be severely depleted by Sunday, but it's still worth going. If you're trying to ease up into some sheet music, go at the crack of and box out.

Seattle still > everywhere else. Yes, you should still be there tomorrow even if you don't live here.

[Friends of the Seattle Public Library's semiannual sale this weekend @ seattletimes.com]

Update on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 2:22 by Tyler

It's also acceptable to be participating Record Store Day. [As long as it's an indie one.] My bad.

They got a ton of exclusive stuff this year, wow.