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I haven’t been to Arlington National Cemetery in a long time, I am ashamed to say. In fact, this picture – pulled from its website – is about a good a view as I have gotten in a few years. Last night, I was… Continue Reading “Arlington”
LibraryThing has a program of sorts that offers up advance copies of books to members willing to review them online. The list of available books is on the home page and it isn’t a bad way to keep up with who is coming out… Continue Reading “Matchless”
They’re actually calling it Book Wars. MSNBC, among others, is reporting that Wal-Mart and Amazon.com are engaging in a price war with certain new releases going for $9. In other words, they are selling for a loss. Just to tick each other off, I… Continue Reading “Book Wars”
Once upon a time, I had a serious Barnes & Noble habit. I’m going to call it $100 a month, mostly online. Then I discovered the used book stores. And then I started school. And then came the cable TV and DVR in my… Continue Reading “Gotta Check in Once in a While”
That “Book Club Bundle” idea seems to have worked. Once anyway. A group of four used copies of Cold Mountain for $2.50 (and we included information on some websites for discussion questions) took about a week to sell. Unfortunately, while we have two copies… Continue Reading “It Seems to Have Worked”
Slate.com wrote about the books the President took on vacation with him this week. The purpose was to over-analyze the selections and debate on what he would or would not finish. And what does it mean that all of these books are written by… Continue Reading “The President’s Reading List”
I don’t even know what book this was marking, because it fell from a pile that I was sorting, but I found an old postcard: The back says: CAPE CRAFT PINEHwy. 17 NorthMyrtle Beach, S.C. 29577Phone (803) 449-5423EARLY AMERICAN DECORATOR ITEMSDIRECT FROM FACTORY AT… Continue Reading “Speaking of "Forgotten Bookmarks"”
At the last meeting of the Used Book Store committee, we came around to the topic of having multiple copies of books. Should we keep every copy on the shelves? Perhaps take extra copies to sell to Half Price Books? Someone threw out the… Continue Reading “Trying Something New”
Google’s “Blogs of Note” had a good one today: Forgotten Bookmarks is written by someone in a used book store and it writes about random things found during the intake process. I find things in the donated books pretty regularly at the library. Generally,… Continue Reading “Blogs of Note”
MSN had an article in City Guide about the best used book stores that validated an observation I had regarding the library’s Amazon site: What do used bookstores want to buy? “The past 12 months of bestsellers are usually in high demand, but it… Continue Reading “More About Used Books Stores”
The Next Dark Age 