I love the lifeline bookfest but alas this time I can not go (sigh).  We have to pay off my incredibly large dental bill before buying more book for our collection.  With 635 books on our shelves finding room is also a bit of a problem.  However if you dear reader love books and like me find a bargain hard to go past the bookfest is for you.  With 6 km of books on offer this is the largest second hand book sale in the world. Last bookfest a woman beside me had flown up from Melbourne just for the sale, that should indicate how great this event is. I would also recommend going on the last day when you can fill a bag for $5… believe me you can really cram a lot of books in one bag!

We love books in our household, we are all bookworms to the extreme. The lounge room has five book cases, the kids room has one, the playroom has one, and there are cookbooks in the dining room/ kitchen area.  Then there is the toilet which has a magazine rack with books in it and bath books for the kids in the bathroom.  Oh and our bedroom is too small for a bookcase but there are boxes of books under the bed.  If we ever had a house fire this place would go up in no time.  Perhaps we should consider contents insurance some day? My point is however that you can own a lot of books and pay next to nothing for them.  We just went to the Lifeline Bookfest and for $26 we got 140 books.  The trick is to go on the last day when you can fill a bag for $5 in the unpriced section.  They also have a  priced section which they reduce to half price. Lifeline put on two bookfests per year and we just LOVE them. Our library includes well know authors as well as those hard to find rare “gems”.  For a bookworm the Lifeline Bookfest is the closest thing to Heaven on Earth.