The Richardson ISD Council of PTAs is hosting its 30th annual Used Book Fair Feb. 16-19, so area schools are collecting books over the next two weeks to be sorted and sent to Dal-Rich Shopping Center at Coit and Beltline.

If you’d like to offload some of your extra books, sack them up and most area schools will gladly receive them in their front office. Specifically, PTA volunteers will be in the Lake Highlands High School main entrance foyer at morning drop-off time Friday, Feb. 3, Monday, Feb. 6 and Tuesday, Feb. 7.

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They can’t sell and don’t want your video tapes, cassettes, magazines, pamphlets, coloring books, comic books, badly torn or damaged books, college textbooks, computer books or encyclopedias, but they will collect your CDs and DVDs in their original cases.

If you still have school-aged children at home, they’re likely to receive a class incentive for donating, but if you’re kids are long gone, here’s your chance to jettison all those copies of Watership Down and Dante’s Inferno they left on your bookshelf.

And, now that you’ve got some empty space, mark your calendar to shop at the Fair. Most paperbacks sell for under a dollar, and the hardbacks go for just a couple of bucks. Best of all, thousands are raised for RISD schools, PTA projects and college scholarships.