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Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
 
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

John Green, The Fault in our Stars
 
There is a used bookstore in downtown Providence called Cellar stories. I've been going there since I was 14 and thirty years later I sill get that feeling of excitement and anticipation when I go there.

I passed this on to my youngest daughter taking her for the first time when she was 4 to look through the children's books.

she's 20 now and a few months ago she joined a big sister's program and the first place she took her ten year old little sister was that store. Made me feel good to see kids still discovering the joy of books these days where everything is the damn internet.
 
You don’t know it yet but what you’ll miss

is the books, heavy and fragrant and frayed,
the pages greasy, almost transparent, thinned
at the edges by hundreds of licked thumbs.

What you’ll remember is the dumb joy
of stumbling across a passage so perfect
it drums in your head, drowns out

the teacher and the lunch bell’s ring. You’ve stolen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn from the library.
Lingering on the steps, you dig into your bag

to touch its heat: stolen goods, willfully taken,
in full knowledge of right and wrong.
You call yourself a thief. There are worse things,

you think, fingering the cover, tracing
the embossed letters like someone blind.
This is all you need as you take your first step

toward the street, joining characters whose lives
might unfold at your touch. You follow them into
the blur of the world. Into whoever you’re going to be.

Dorianne Laux
 
I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, and still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

Saskia Hamilton
 
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austin

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The first book I truly loved was The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I decided to re-read a few years back and the copy I found was severely edited to remove un-pc names and phrases from that time. Also I think the names of the children were altered to suit American readers if I remember rightly.

I hated it.

Thankfully I found my old copies stuck up in the loft somewhere and read them proper.


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~Fata Morgana~ said:
The first book I truly loved was The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I decided to re-read a few years back and the copy I found was severely edited to remove un-pc names and phrases from that time. Also I think the names of the children were altered to suit American readers if I remember rightly.

I hated it.

Thankfully I found my old copies stuck up in the loft somewhere and read them proper.
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Yeah, they bowdlerised Blyton pretty severely in the last few years.
 
"25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore"

1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.

2. While you're drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.

3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they're not looking for classics, they want the romance section.

4. If someone comes in and says they read a little of everything, they also want the romance section.

5. If someone comes in and asks for a recommendation and you ask for the name of a book that they liked and they can't think of one, the person is not really a reader. Recommend Nicholas Sparks.

6. Kids will stop by your store on their way home from school if you have a free bucket of kids books. If you also give out free gum, they'll come every day and start bringing their friends.

7. If you put free books outside, cookbooks will be gone in the first hour and other non-fiction books will sit there for weeks. Except in warm weather when people are having garage sales. Then someone will back their car up and take everything, including your baskets.

8. If you put free books outside, someone will walk in every week and ask if they're really free, no matter how many signs you put out . Someone else will walk in and ask if everything in the store is free.

9. No one buys self help books in a store where there's a high likelihood of personal interaction when paying. Don't waste the shelf space, put them in the free baskets.

10. This is also true of sex manuals. The only ones who show an interest in these in a small store are the gum chewing kids, who will find them no matter how well you hide them.

11. Under no circumstances should you put the sex manuals in the free baskets. Parents will show up.

12. People buying books don't write bad checks. No need for ID's. They do regularly show up having raided the change jar.

13. If you have a bookstore that shares a parking lot with a beauty shop that caters to an older clientele, the cars parked in your lot will always be pulled in at an angle even though it's not angle parking.

14. More people want to sell books than buy them, which means your initial concerns were wrong. You will have no trouble getting books, the problem is selling them. Plus a shortage of storage space for all the Readers Digest books and encyclopedias that people donate to you.

15. If you open a store in a college town, and maybe even if you don't, you will find yourself as the main human contact for some strange and very socially awkward men who were science and math majors way back when. Be nice and talk to them, and ignore that their fly is open.

16. Most people think every old book is worth a lot of money. The same is true of signed copies and 1st editions. There's no need to tell them they're probably not ensuring financial security for their grandkids with that signed Patricia Cornwell they have at home.

17. There's also no need to perpetuate the myth by pricing your signed Patricia Cornwell higher than the non-signed one.

18. People use whatever is close at hand for bookmarks--toothpicks, photographs, kleenex, and the very ocassional fifty dollar bill, which will keep you leafing through books way beyond the point where it's pr0ductive.

19. If you're thinking of giving someone a religious book for their graduation, rethink. It will end up unread and in pristine condition at a used book store, sometimes with the fifty dollar bill still tucked inside. (And you're off and leafing once again).

20. If you don't have an AARP card, you're apparently too young to read westerns.

21. A surprising number of people will think you've read every book in the store and will keep pulling out volumes and asking you what this one is about. These are the people who leave without buying a book, so it's time to have some fun. Make up plots.

22. Even if you're a used bookstore, people will get huffy when you don't have the new release by James Patterson. They are the same people who will ask for a discount because a book looks like it's been read.

23. Everyone has a little Nancy Drew in them. Stock up on the mysteries.

24. It is both true and sad that some people do in fact buy books based on the color of the binding.

25. No matter how many books you've read in the past, you will feel woefully un-well read within a week of opening the store. You will also feel wise at having found such a good way to spend your days.
 
26. Free books don't go. Books priced at 1 penny will sell because people are suspicious of 'free'. One fifteen-year old girl, about to study English Literature, spent three pounds = 300 books on the 1 penny pile and had to borrow my telephone to ask Mum to come and collect her. Over the next five years she bought dozens of my books at normal prices, and a few hundred more at 1 penny each. She made far more money than I did selling to her. She sold some of her purchases to fellow students at University.

27. All your real customers know far more about their favourite authors than you do, or than you ever want to know. Do I care that there was a "true" first of a book that has a misprint on page 188, and is apparently more valuable? I just want your money.

28. People who say "how quaint" and "what a lovely smell of old books" aren't buyers.

29. Mills and Boon Romance paperbooks, and Reader's Digest Condensed Books are good for those learning English as a foreign language. I priced Mills and Boon at 10 pence each, and Reader's Digest Condensed Books at 1 penny. I sold several hundred a quarter to a French couple who ran an English Language school in Paris. Between terms they used to visit relatives in London but always called in at my shop on the way back to Dover.

30. My customers were generally honest. In ten years of trading I lost one book to theft. I didn't count the care in the community person who "stole" five books from my 1 penny pile. If he had asked, I would have given him as many 1 penny books as he wanted.

31. Secondhand bookdealers, at least in the UK, don't make enough money to bother the Taxman. If you declare enough profit to register for VAT, you can't be selling secondhand books.

32. I had regular sales as a spin-off from a discreet business two doors away. She was a local prostitute specialising in older clients. Her customers would spend money in my bookshop while waiting for their appointment time, leave them 'for collection later' and be back within quarter of a hour. She also liked books and would buy some of my expensive 19th Century leather bound volumes - for the decorative value, not the content.

Aside (I recruited her to be a Member of our Chamber of Commerce. Why not? I was Vice-President of the Chamber. She was conducting a legitimate trade, paid her taxes, and was discreet. She benefited from discounts from fellow members on their goods and services and offered a discount to them. I didn't ask how many Chamber members received her discount.)
 
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