CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- To kick off the holiday shopping season, the Thanksgiving Day editions of The Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail will feature 42 inserts with 878 pages of advertising.

The newspapers, full of "Black Friday" sales events, will weigh about 3 1/2 pounds each.

This year, for the first time, most of our advertisers have sent us enough copies of the inserts for our full press run of 72,500 papers. That means nearly all of our readers, regardless of your location, will see all the ads we have to offer.

If you are not a subscriber to one or both of the papers, you can purchase a Thanksgiving Day paper at stores or at newspaper boxes for $1.50.

Copies also may be purchased for $1.50 in the Charleston Newspapers lobby, 1001 Virginia St. E., while supplies last.