Can you send them with insufficient postage, so HE has to pay for them? (I get evil on Mondays)
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Aug 11, 2008 6:31:15 am PDT #6922 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Miracleman - Aug 11, 2008 6:32:09 am PDT #6923 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
That was my first thought!
Barb - Aug 11, 2008 6:34:26 am PDT #6924 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
You can also send them back with the covers removed, ala remaindered books that no one gives a shit about.
Miracleman - Aug 11, 2008 6:37:39 am PDT #6925 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Even the hardcovers?
Steph L. - Aug 11, 2008 6:39:34 am PDT #6926 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
If you remove the covers (a la remaindered books), be sure to enclose a copy of this poem: [link]
Barb - Aug 11, 2008 6:39:54 am PDT #6927 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
I can't remember what they do with hardcovers. Probably just remove the dustjackets, but I don't know. I could, however, find out.
Amy - Aug 11, 2008 6:41:33 am PDT #6928 of 28385
Because books.
The covers are removed to save postage, actually--rather than a store sending back the whole book, they just send the covers. I bet the dust jacket *is* what gets sent for hardcovers, Barb.
sj - Aug 11, 2008 6:43:31 am PDT #6929 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Mass market paperbacks and magazines are the only remainders where only the front cover gets sent back. The rest they send back the whole book. At least that is how it was done at the bookstore I worked at.
Toddson - Aug 11, 2008 6:46:46 am PDT #6930 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Paperbacks have the covers stripped off; covers are sent back to the publisher for credit and the books are pulped (for recycling). Hardcovers are marked - either a magic marker stripe across the pages (at the edge) or a mark on the cover - and the entire thing sent back.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 6:51:29 am PDT #6931 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No, hardcovers and trade paperbacks are sent back as is, since they may still be sold to another store. The marker stripe you've sometimes seen is done by the publishers only after the book has been remaindered.