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Saturday is also 'bag day' when you can fill a reusable grocery bag with books for $5. 'In a very digital world, it's good to remind yourself that things are real, it's because sometimes you forget that if you stay online a little too long, as I know it happens to a lot of people you just, it just nothing feels real and you space out, but, books give me somewhere to be and whether that's in their world are in mine just holding it, It gives me somewhere to go,' said Chloe. But she says that holding a book in her hand gives her something she can't get anywhere else, even online. That was easy to see when she walked out of the library with this load of books. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. And sometimes, write them down so I really just enjoy the whole concept of story-making,' said Chloe. And then I take inspiration from that and make my own stories. 'I like to make stories in my head surrounding it, so books do that for me. Which is good news to shoppers like Chloe Degraffenreid, who plans on making another visit. 'As we see gaps on the tables in certain categories, we just are continually restocking and that's the way we're able to move more of the inventory that we have accumulated over the last two years,' said Martin. The basement of the library is stuffed with boxes filled with book donations that are used to restock the book sale upstairs, every hour or so. The sale is inside this year and limited to 30 shoppers at a time, but volunteers say traffic has been steady. 'Obviously different this year due to COVID restrictions we weren't able to plan to have something under the tent in June.'

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The Library provides material and services to all residents of Luzerne County enabling them to obtain information, free of charge, for their personal, educational, recreational and professional needs. 'This is the 44th year that we've had,' explained Irene Martine, the president of the Friends of the Osterhout Free Library. The Osterhout Free Library is a member of the Luzerne County Library System, as well as the district center for the Wilkes-Barre Library District. The reading room inside the Osterhout Free Library was not only filled with books for an annual book sale but with shoppers too.