Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:42:11 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Book shelves and cases
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:28 AM 10/21/2005, you wrote:

>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.

If I were using them for books, that would be an issue, but they are going
to become part of my vending kit for my purses.  (I may yet decide that I
need bookcases if my cloth squares don't work out the way I think they will)

>=Tamar

Candy
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