The Recycled Read was open once again on Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Recycled Read is a secondhand bookstore that is located at 110 S Logan St. Wayne NE.
The store initially opened January of 2022 and is open once a month or on special occasions.
“The Recycled Read is usually open the first weekend of the month sometimes we open it for special pop-up sales like whenever there is a lot of things going on downtown, we go ahead and open for business,” Wayne Public Library Librarian Rachel Nissen said.
The store helps books, DVDs and CDs find a home that would otherwise end up going to waste.
“The Recycled Read usually gets its books through donations from patrons or usually the library goes through a weeding process,” Nissen said. “About every year at the same time we go through and see what books have not been checked out as often, what are not used as much and then we go ahead and discard those and they go down to the Recycled Read for people to buy.”
The books are sorted out by librarians and are then passed to the Friends of the Wayne Public Library.
“Librarians are usually the ones who discard it [a book] and The Friends of the Library are the ones who really run it,” Nissen said. “They run on volunteers.”
Not only is the store preventing books from ending up in the trash, but it also allows college students and others in the Wayne community to purchase books that they would otherwise not have the opportunity to own.
“I think it’s good that they are recycling instead of throwing it out,” freshman Madelyn Egelhoff said. “It creates less waste, and it was affordable for broke college students.”
The store has a wide range of genres from romance and fiction to self-help books and classics. Many of the books being sold were old and had a nostalgic feel to them.
“It was very laid back and it was very nice looking at all of the vintage books,” Egelhoff said. “It was nostalgic because some of the children’s books that I saw were from my childhood.”
There is going to be a pop-up sale on Nov. 2 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. which will be an opportunity to check out the selection and buy some books.
“More people are welcome all of the time so we would like to see people down there!” Nissen said.
