Worked in a book shop once. Customer bought boxes and boxes of remainder books without even checking them out. Why? Her new house had lots of bookshelves and she needed to fill them. At least she wasn’t buying real book spine wall paper. I’ve even seen old books sold by the yard – a yard of red, a yard of black, a yard of green. SO sad.
In the old days you could tell if a person was smart or not by looking at the books in reach and check to see if the pages had been cut. Publishers didn’t cut all the pages so groups would remain uncut for the owner to cut and read.
sbchamp almost 11 years ago
Westlaw approves
YokohamaMama almost 11 years ago
Worked in a book shop once. Customer bought boxes and boxes of remainder books without even checking them out. Why? Her new house had lots of bookshelves and she needed to fill them. At least she wasn’t buying real book spine wall paper. I’ve even seen old books sold by the yard – a yard of red, a yard of black, a yard of green. SO sad.
thyasyn almost 11 years ago
In the old days you could tell if a person was smart or not by looking at the books in reach and check to see if the pages had been cut. Publishers didn’t cut all the pages so groups would remain uncut for the owner to cut and read.