Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Book shelves and cases
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Mike B. wrote:

> At 09:05 PM 10/20/2005 -0400, Candy Madigan wrote:
>> I take your word for it that Staples sells folding bookcases, but they
>> aren't on their website.  Most annoying, since a short folding bookcase at
>> one end of a table at an event, would be really helpful for me.
>
> I got it at the Staples on Rockville Pike...the one in the parking lot with
> Circuit City, Bed Bath & Beyond, Petco and Michaels...just north of
> Congressional Mall.  It was over a year ago, so maybe they were a passing
> fad or something.  If I see them again, I'll let you know.

I've seen them fairly routinely at the Staples on 193 near Greenbelt
(opposite side of the highway from the very big Giant store mall).
They've carried them for at least five years; sometimes more, sometimes
less in stock, and once I had to get a store manager to tell someone to go
in the back room and look.  However, one thing to be alert for is the
presence of the vertical dowels that prevent books from falling through
the ends of the shelves!  The knock-off versions don't have those, and
cost just as much.  Also look for good strong hinges, absence of big
knots in the wood, etc.

=Tamar