Disappearing Ink: What Will Happen to All the Books?

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Courtesy Photo via Casey Curran

Book art by Seattle-based artist Casey Curran titled "Healthy Cooking circa 1945".

On a cool Thursday evening in January, several women gather around folding tables in a Central Phoenix warehouse to sort thousands of books, pausing only to pull out a greeting card used as a bookmark or to show off a rare find. This ritual takes all year -- and every year, the work of putting together what's billed as one of the largest used book sales in the country is the same. Only the titles change. Read the full story by Claire Lawton here.

Photos by New Times Staff

Published on February 20, 2013

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