{"id":1576,"date":"2014-10-20T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2014-10-20T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:16:06","slug":"kevin-boston-public-library-book-sales-a-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2014\/10\/20\/kevin-boston-public-library-book-sales-a-hidden-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin: Boston Public Library Book Sales, a Hidden Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Public Library is an awesome place to hang out. Whether you\u2019re a bookworm and want to search through the millions of books (not an exaggeration, it\u2019s the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> largest public library in the US) or you just want to get a coffee and sit in the courtyard, it\u2019s easy to lose track of time and spend a whole day there.<\/p>\n<p>The first Saturday of every even-numbered month (don\u2019t as me how they came up with that system\u2026), the BPL has a book sale from 10am-4pm. Unfortunately, that means the last one was October 4<sup>th<\/sup> so you\u2019ll have to wait a while until the next one on December 6<sup>th<\/sup>, but it\u2019s worth marking your calendar for.<\/p>\n<p>They have books, DVD\u2019s, old records, CD\u2019s, and even video games. All the books are $1 for a paperback, $2 for a hardcover, and pretty much everything else is under $5. I managed to find some anthology-type books, and walk away with 9 books for only $4!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more, you can check out their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpl.org\/general\/friends\/booksale.htm\">http:\/\/www.bpl.org\/general\/friends\/booksale.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Public Library is an awesome place to hang out. Whether you\u2019re a bookworm and want to search through the millions of books (not an exaggeration, it\u2019s the 2nd largest public library in the US) or you just want to get a coffee and sit in the courtyard, it\u2019s easy to lose track of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2014\/10\/20\/kevin-boston-public-library-book-sales-a-hidden-gem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin: Boston Public Library Book Sales, a Hidden Gem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}