36 Reasons Why We Will Miss Bookstores
Bookstores, in case you haven’t been in one recently, are perfectly lovely.
“If you are struggling and have no idea what to buy those loved ones, do like so many other fine and upstanding women by visiting the Franklin & Wolfe Variety Store and engage in a stimulating exchange of knowledge with the throngs of folk looking over our fine store!! Especially examine our fine school supplies, as well as games! Our shelves are also continuously filled with special books and curios which have been stocked for the delight of all your many children!
See proprietor for detailed information about why it is always important to read between the lines.”
9. They have an endearingly idiosyncratic way of classifying things.
31. They have a keen sense of irony.
Found written on a used bookstore’s copy of Slaughterhouse 5.
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dandilioness 4 months ago#36 Makes me:
(1.) Remember why I hate going into bookstores.
(2.) Not really care if they’re closing down one right after the other. (3.) Thank God for the Internet.
(4.) Wonder where these neurotic, snobbish, self important jerks will feel comfortable working now. -
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DramaticallyGiles 5 months ago#7 I actually read that book on the far left. It’s called “Why Buffy Matters” and it’s a pretty good read if you’re a big fan of BtVS.
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- reidm2 added A Cloak Of Elvenkind to the mix about 5 months ago
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Summer Anne Burton 5 months ago
when i worked at a bookstore, one of the marketing geniuses drew this poster of me for a display. in conclusion, bookstores are the fucking best.
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myrtelc 5 months agoYou’re too embarrassed to ask us to put back the book you decided not to buy, so instead you stuff it anywhere you can find up near the counter. GUESS WHICH ONE WE HATE MORE. We don’t judge you for reading erotica. We DO judge you for doing it in the music section and then leaving the books there. Oh, and all you customers who move books where they shouldn’t be on purpose because you think you’re being funny and clever (i.e. “My Little Pony” in “horror”, erotica in “Children’s”)? You’re not funny, you’re not clever, you’re just an ass hole who is creating extra work for people who make very little. We wish we could give you polio with our minds.
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tyty516 5 months agoAs a member of the Whedon Studies Association, Buffy Studies is a serious field across many academic discipline. Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies is vastly popular and so is Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies. We hold the Slayage conferences every two years with the next one being in 2014. 2. Strand Bookstores in NYC > your bookstore.
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leticiamb 5 months agoAs a former bookstore manager and general employee, every single one of those is entirely accurate. It may sound bitchy but all of those things happened on a daily basis at every book store I worked in. It gets old after awhile. I’m sure this sign was posted at a store closing and the employees finally got to have their say. I applaud them.
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intervamp 5 months ago
I currently work at a used bookstore (still hanging on) and all of those are true. Luckily for me, my manager is super cheap and we don’t do straight up returns. My absolute favourite was just the other day when a guy walked into the store and said, “I was here 15 years ago and bought a book on back pain, do you have another copy?” Totally expected me to know everything about this book cause he bought it at this store 15 years ago and was very disappointed when, no, we didn’t have a copy. But, Oprah is awesome. Just put those books with that sticker on the same shelf and boom, people will buy em. And trust me, A LOT of Oprah books are given away to used book stores.
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evilito 5 months ago
If the store is indeed closing, then ha ha, I get it, good for them and all that. Otherwise, yeah, it’s bitchy. I worked customer service for years (in another industry), and am perfectly familiar with stupid customers and stupid questions…but it comes with the territory, and you adapt.
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