Dubbo and district readers are being asked to hang onto their books until the day before the Michael Egan Memorial Book Fair after an overwhelming response to a call for donations.
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The Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie, which runs the book fair, received an estimated 9300 books across a "drop-off day" last week.
Books were left at Meals on Wheels Dubbo in Mountbatten Drive, where book fair coordinator Peter English is service manager.
He has told of "traffic jams" on the day when "we were smashed in a good way".
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Mr English said the books donated on January 28 filled seven large wooden pallets and 17 smaller cardboard pallet boxes.
"A wooden pallet takes about 600 books and the smaller cardboard pallet boxes take about half that," he said.
"That's a total of 9300 books donated in one day which is just amazing."
But with all storage space now filled with books, Mr English is asking donors to wait until the day before the book fair, April 30, to drop off books at the Centenary Pavilion at Dubbo Showground.
The book fair will be held in the pavilion on May 1 and 2.
It was not held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proceeds from the book fair go to the Royal Flying Doctor Service's Dubbo Support Group and cancer research.
