Check out annual book sale

Proceeds to help library, adult literacy program

Volunteers Jan Baker, left, and Roberta Gumm help sort and box some of the thousands of books for the annual MRRL/ABLE Book Sale that starts Wednesday.
Volunteers Jan Baker, left, and Roberta Gumm help sort and box some of the thousands of books for the annual MRRL/ABLE Book Sale that starts Wednesday.

Some look forward to the annual MRRL/ABLE book sale as though it is Black Friday. And for some, it is much like that.

Customers - many from across the area - line up at St. Martin's Knights of Columbus Hall hours before the event begins, all hoping to get a good deal and find a gem amidst the 100,000-plus books at the sale.

The work for this year's sale literally began the day after it ended last year.