Oh, man.  Already?

Thanks to your help and support, this has been the most successful book drive in Dewey (and pamie.com’s) history.  This is an even more impressive achievement when factoring a tank of gas these days can cost more than ten times one of these books; when we did not have the usual large-traffic websites drawing attention to the cause; when we hadn’t picked a location that was suffering from a headline-making hardship.  We made an even bigger gamble by picking two libraries in need instead of one, even though a long time had passed since our last book drive.  We didn’t know what was possible, but thanks to all of you, over two thousand books are on their way to a children’s library in Los Angeles, and over fifteen thousand dollars are helping to create a community library for a town in Jamaica.  And we did it in less than a month.

Extra special thanks goes to those of you who pitched in prizes for our donors, and for those of you who spread the word on your own websites, within your own group of friends and co-workers.  Is the Karma working yet?  We hope so!

To all our donors: we can’t thank you enough.  We know Alicia Fox at the Children’s Institute and Peter Rose from the Rockhouse Foundation thank you endlessly.  We’ll post any updates we receive from them in the coming months, but know that the help you gave will keep on giving well past this year, well past when you even remember you gave in the first place.

It’s time for Dewey to take a little nap (he sleeps in the reference section) so he can rest up for next year.  Wear his shirt with pride.

Oh, and the next time someone tells you the Internet is full of crazy people, you tell them about Dewey, and how those people might indeed be crazy, but they’re also pretty damn awesome.

For the record, our final tally for the 2008 book drive is: 882 donors, 1928 books and 17494 dollars.

Love and dog-eared pages,
Pamie and Glark