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Up, down, & sideways- shelving your books
Saturday, 22 Aug, 2009 – 15:30 | 11 Comments
Up, down, & sideways- shelving your books

Before you buy your bookcases for your new bookstore, take some time to figure out what display method will be the easiest for you to maintain and show your books off to best advantage.

Book burning on Feb. 10th 2009 due to CPSIA
Thursday, 8 Jan, 2009 – 13:02 | 36 Comments
Book burning on Feb. 10th 2009 due to CPSIA

The government thinks books are a danger to children and mandates destruction of millions of kids’ books starting February 10th, 2009. It sounds like the plot form a science fiction novel, but new regulations are all too real.

Excuse me; do you have this in Cantonese?
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2008 – 8:14 | 3 Comments
Excuse me; do you have this in Cantonese?

Sure, I have a shiny new magnetic name tag that, in lieu of my real name reads, Bookseller. Yet, instead of this title, it could read Book Finder, Computer Tech, Cleaning Lady, Don’t ask me – I’m new and, most importantly, Customer Service Agent.