Is this national? Actually, I will just assume it is and go fill up my bags in my local library.

Edit: I just got arrested :disappointed:

Not really, because it means we live in Slough.

Please send them to Birmingham's library: they spent £190M on a new building and now they can't afford to stock it (or man it). Typical Labour council! :disappointed:

I wouldn't worry too much about that. Library books are liabilities as well as assets (because it costs money to catalog and store books as well as the Public Lending Right contribution paid to authors via the British Library). Selling at 20p is a clever way of getting rid of the on-going liabilities attached to less popular titles while also letting library patrons bag a bargain. That then frees up space/ budget at the new library for new books, eBooks, and all the other invaluable services that libraries provide.

And recycling... renovation and a lick of paint over spending millions of tax payers money on a 'curved' building, the amount of squares in Slough didnt mind a square library, now go add insult to injury all these books are public owned being sold off like a Tory asset under value of cost v the value of a book in a library is priceless.

Why would anybody post negative comments about Slough?

I hope these are in some sort of order so you can find an author easily. I wonder if it's only current stock or whether they have older books no longer on shelves? Thanks op!

I know i shouldn't be saying this cos i would feel the same if it was my local authority. I am going to wait
till the library itself is up for auction on that Amercican container auction show and then i will bid for the library. My only concern is how am i going to tow it to my back garden? Answers on a postcard please .

There's something a lot more natural and organic about holding a paperback and reading print.

For those interested here is some info about the new library which is getting ready to be opened:



http://www.slough.gov.uk/business/regenerating-slough/the-curve.aspx

It's part of a large regeneration of the whole area the council has been, and will, implementing over a number of years. This started a while back with the demolition of the old bus station. I don't think it's to worry about what's happening with the books. As mentioned above it costs the library to keep older stock so they're saving money and making space for newer stock.

The new library is a multi purpose building with various facilities to help support it as well as more modern approach (e-learning suite, computer rooms) the old library had introduced a bunch of computers and things and this one I believe is basically moving forward to change with the times.

The council has invested quite heavily into it and will continue to invest in the surrounding area as part of the "Heart of Slough" long term project (along with a few other parts of Slough as well) I did ask that people please refrain from bashing the town (yes we all know that poem!) and concentrate on the deal at hand, this is just to illustrate there is a reason for it and one I think is the right approach, to modernise and revamp the library service to the more online world we have now.

Awesome memories of weekly visits to slough library while growing up. The place seemed gargantuan back then, recently passing through slough and needed to print off some documents I'd forgotten to bring with me so detoured to the library and was surprised how much smaller it seemed.

​so is my kindle, to be fair.

and is lovely to read and hold in your hand.

funding cuts or not is irrelevant - spending £190m on a library building and then, due to that spending not having the funds to stock or run it, is farcical under any circumstances/under any party

They're clearing it out for the Apocalypse, obviously. Bunker under the Slough Library?

BOOK BURNING PARTYYYY

Why not?
Will be living next door to the Queen.:smiley:
Can even see her house aka Windsor Castle on the M4.:smiley:

Sutton libraries do this as well. Great selection.

if they have a brand new library why bother selling stock, why not simply put it in the new library , what use is 20p

The irony is that Ali G would never live in Staines.

That's the point.

It's very middle class.

Did you know Ali G?

Heat added though, A real bargain for lIbrary books in Slough - As they'll never have been used

Come friendly bombs...

Has anyone been to absolutely ten pin in Slough? Thinking about holding a work party there

wish I lived nearby!

Yeah...

Gallus, did you grab-a-gran, then do a Bobby Shafto at the Holiday Inn?

Quite right, nothing to do with it. The start of this farce pre-dates the current government by years and is a local matter anyway. Birmingham can't even manage some pretty basic council responsibilities (eg child protection is officially unfit for purpose, green recycling is chargeable, etc.) yet it engages in this kind of vanity project. A perfectly serviceable (if 1960s ugly) library existed yet, just as libraries are becoming redundant, this bunch of clowns spend £190M knocking it down and building an even uglier one.

So glad I live just far enough away not to pay my council taxes to them.

Please send them to Birmingham's library: they spent £190M on a new building and now they can't afford to stock it (or man it). Typical Labour council! :disappointed:

Send them to Andy:

So it doesn't need batteries and will outlast all gadgets in production today.

What's a book?

Lucky for people near by

Man, that was a grab a granny place back in the late 1980's.

I remember staying at the holiday inn.

If anybody can find fitness, kettlebell and anatomy books I would be interested in buying them from you so long as price is reasonable

Is Sluffs nightclub still around?

Glad to hear your getting a new library. Does seem cheap so heat for local bargains. Got to say though am generally concerned about the cuts we are seeing to library services. Our local library cut hours after a so called community consultation where we had too options mon-sat 9-5 or 9.30-5.30. Gone are Sunday openings and evening openings. Library funding I always thought was a good long term investment for communities. But short term cost savings seem all councils and the government can see.

Is this national? Actually, I will just assume it is and go fill up my bags in my local library.

Edit: I just got arrested :disappointed:

I live 100s of miles from Slough but this is a good deal.
My only concern is are they selling stuff too cheap if they want to plough funds into Slough's new library.

I live in Slough, will definitely take a look. Thanks :smile:

My wife is shopping there and she tells me books are actually from 20p (children's books for example) and you can fill a carrier bag for £1 (except CDs and local history books)