Thousands of books were being prepared this week by (from left) Graham Strachan, Elle Ludemann and Steven Bolstridge for the annual Rotary Club of Oamaru Bookarama. Photo by David Bruce.
It usually raises between $8000 and $9000 for the club's community projects.
Graham Strachan estimated this year the club had about 2600 paperbacks, 1800 hardcover fiction books, hundreds of children's books and thousands of non-fiction titles.