New England Mobile Book Fair
Jul. 13th, 2003 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI went in to get a single book, a copy of the new Bill Bryson book for my dad, for his birthday. Really, one book. That's all.
I'd forgotten how this place is a crack house for book buyers.
It's huge (just the remainders section is larger than a lot of book stores), and since it is set up unlike any other book store, there are odd serendipital finds. How odd? Well, the main fiction section is set up alphabetically... by publisher. Within that, alpha by title. There is a set of Books in Print set out for patrons, and it is frequently used. Going over to look through that brings me to some of the remaindered books, which included two Edward Goreys. Can't pass that up, of course. And how could I not check the remaindered kids book section? They're on sale, after all... And there, in addition to a couple of other things, there were a couple of DWJ books. In hardcover. Remaindered. Yeah, like I could pass that up.
Not surprisingly, I had a big stack of books by the time I made it to the cash register. Only one book wasn't remaindered, though, so despite the money I'd not thought I'd spend, I still felt somewhat virtuous...
And of course, only later did I remember there was a cool sand castle book, which made me think of having a sand castle party, some Sunday afternoon at a beach. Perhaps I shall have to go back to pick that up...
I'd forgotten how this place is a crack house for book buyers.
It's huge (just the remainders section is larger than a lot of book stores), and since it is set up unlike any other book store, there are odd serendipital finds. How odd? Well, the main fiction section is set up alphabetically... by publisher. Within that, alpha by title. There is a set of Books in Print set out for patrons, and it is frequently used. Going over to look through that brings me to some of the remaindered books, which included two Edward Goreys. Can't pass that up, of course. And how could I not check the remaindered kids book section? They're on sale, after all... And there, in addition to a couple of other things, there were a couple of DWJ books. In hardcover. Remaindered. Yeah, like I could pass that up.
Not surprisingly, I had a big stack of books by the time I made it to the cash register. Only one book wasn't remaindered, though, so despite the money I'd not thought I'd spend, I still felt somewhat virtuous...
And of course, only later did I remember there was a cool sand castle book, which made me think of having a sand castle party, some Sunday afternoon at a beach. Perhaps I shall have to go back to pick that up...