Come on – it's springtime – clear out your cupboards, dust off your coffee tables and blow the cobwebs from your bookshelf!

Tauranga Harbour City Lions Club need books, books and more books for its upcoming annual booksale on November 4-6.

Booksale convenor Christine Currie says while the sale is two months away she has 23 helpers coming to the book-sorting depot to sort books – and she doesn't want them twiddling their thumbs.

'They have nearly ran out of books to sort for the booksale – this week all I did was give them a cup of tea,” says Christine.

'So we need residents of the Western Bay of Plenty to spring clean their homes of books and donate them to our booksale by dropping them off now.

'Winter is leaving us – people usually have a pile of books that they've chewed through during winter – please donate them to our booksale!”

Book donation drop-off points are at Harvey Norman Cameron Rd, Wet and Forget Chapel St Centre, Countdown Bethlehem Town Centre, 4 Seasons Tauranga Crossing, and Bunnings Jean Batten Drive.

Christine says any type of books can be donated – except for magazines, ‘Readers Digest' and encyclopaedias.

'We need good quality, clean, readable books. The sort of books you think other people might like to read, and jigsaws.”

The Tauranga club needs thousands of books to make the November 4-6 sale a success and raise as much money as possible, with every dollar going back to the community, says Christine.

The book fair started in 2007 and Christine says every year it gets bigger and bigger.

'We put out about 1000 banana boxes of really good books for sale at the event in November – so we're asking the community to donate their good condition reads they no longer need or want.”

For more book donation details, phone 579 2204 or 543 4418 or 027 270 5292.