Tamworth book sale site raises thousands for Rotary club

Its bi-weekly sales of donated books and other items since March have been so popular the club has been making up to $1200 a week.

And they can't wait to give it all away - members will decide at the end of the financial year which local causes to support with what should be a very tidy sum.

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Unfortunately, the current Manilla Road venue won't be forever, president Steve Beaton said.

It's only on loan and they'll have to start checking out potential new ones at some stage, because the club member who owns it plans to subdivide.

"At some point in time this will be houses, but in the meantime he's let us have it," Mr Beaton said.

"To be honest, we didn't know whether it would work or not.

"We were a bit sceptical, but it's turned out fantastic."

Rosemary White, Byron Kolln and Maralyn Kolln are among the regular buyers.

All from Quirindi, they try to time errands in Tamworth for a Wednesday so they can go to the book sale too.

"There's not a lot of interesting things on television, so we prefer to read," Mrs White said - and there was nothing like a hard copy.

"It's nice to think perhaps somebody else has read the same book ... got a kick out of reading it and they wanted to pass it on."

Mr Beaton said some of the secrets of success were the range, good organisation and reasonable prices.

"Our maximum is $3 ... We're finding the same people will bring their boxes of books in and give them to us, and then go in and buy another lot."

The site also sells donated CDs, DVDs, puzzles, games and records - and will even hold an auction and sale of the latter at Friday's Vinyl Lovers Night.