Harvard Bookstore Warehouse Sale

I just now found out about this and figured I'd let some other book lovers know about it:

http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2186

Harvard Book Store's first-ever
WAREHOUSE SALE

Saturday, December 6th and Sunday, December 7th
10am to 4pm

Join us for an exclusive look inside Harvard Book Store's Warehouse

and find thousands of:

* Bargain books
* Used books (at 1/2 off the cover price)
* $1 books
* Comic books
* Rare and collectible books
* Selected rare titles available at a 30% discount!
* and more!

no way! I wish I wasn't already busy tomorrow. Maybe I can sneak over on sunday. I love that bookstore, mostly the basement :)

I hope they hold such sales again. It is unfortunate that the most-interesting books were not arranged by category, but seemingly by acquisition number. Sniff.

How was it?

darn it, i missed it completely.

I walked over this afternoon and was only saved from buying a Shorter OED by the fact that it weighed a billion pounds and I was going to have to carry it a mile and a half. I too was disappointed about the way the used section was organized, though. It was too overwhelming to try to shelf-read everything in there, and after a while my brain just shut down. I really hope they do it again, sometime, though, it was pretty fantastic.

Yeah, the used section (most of the sale) wasn't organized very well and the books weren't really all that much of a "deal" (same prices as in the store). The $1 and $3 tables definitely had some goodies, though, and the remainders are always worth a glance; I found some things in there.

It was OK, but they clearly didn't expect the response it got. My wife and I went there at about 11:00 on Saturday and the line was about 60 people long to buy. The organization was terrible, but there were deals to be had - although I was very annoyed to find that a book I bought for $40, thinking it was a deal, actually went for less than that, new, online. Hopefully it will be done again, but with better organization, both of the books, and of the event itself.

Oh, I can't believe I missed it!

I never got to it, I was shooting a story all weekend. boo! You guys are lucky! I will definitely have to catch it next year :)