It’s time again for the big book sale at the library in Sharon.

SHARON, Pa. — If you’re looking for inexpensive entertainment in this economy, you’ll find stacks of it this week.

It’s low-tech, user-friendly, and yes, cheap. The Friends of the Library’s four-day spring used-book sale begins Wednesday at the Community Library of the Shenango Valley on East State Street at Sharpsville Avenue. It continues through Saturday.

Stock up on your summer reading material by going on a treasure hunt for books that will cost you anywhere from 25 cents for say, a dictionary, children’s book or bundle of magazines to $1, $2 or $3 for a novel, cookbook, how-to book, biography or classic read.

A couple of those old classics have value. If you find them, you’ll pay $10 or $12, not the $40 or $50 they list for online. Expect to pay from 25 cents to $4 otherwise, says Friends’ Kay Joho. She and others were in the library basement Friday getting ready for the sale.

It’s really Joho’s thing, said Friends member Jim Epstein, who’s also on the library board of trustees. The 10 to 12 members of Friends work all year in the library, he said — an average of four hours a week to catalog and sort the donated books constantly being dropped off.

The group donated $13,000 to the library last year from its fall and spring sales, he said. Through the years, it’s donated $130,000, he said — the largest nongovernmental donation the library has received.

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