yeah, i sometimes do that for books when I'm travelling. Then I just leave them in the hotel or the airport or whatever.
Bunnies frighten me.
Anya ,'Help'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Vortex - Jun 18, 2004 6:53:01 am PDT #3506 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Lilty Cash - Jun 18, 2004 6:58:04 am PDT #3507 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
We have a Hospice bookstore in my town, all paperbacks about twenty-five cents, hardcovers priced individually, as there aren't many of them, but dirt cheap. It's fun!
brenda m - Jun 18, 2004 6:58:29 am PDT #3508 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In Milwaukee they actually have a used bookstore right in the airport. Best idea ever.
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2004 7:01:25 am PDT #3509 of 10002
brillig
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2004 7:02:14 am PDT #3510 of 10002
brillig
I've heard that bookstores in airports do very well. Must be a pain, though, because unless the store is before the scanners, I don't think they let the causal shopper get through these days.
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2004 7:03:36 am PDT #3511 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
anyone know where to get copies of the Bourne Identity series that DONT have Matt Damon on the cover?
Okay, I'm praying these books are the novelisation of the movie, and not the original novel, with which Matt Damon has little or no connection.
I do Bookcrossing, myself, for discarding books.
deborah grabien - Jun 18, 2004 7:06:02 am PDT #3512 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Man, if it would get me into airport chains of Books Inc? I'd blow whoever it took right there at Baggage Claim.
Airport bookstores are some of the most profitable on earth. There's a constant stream of people coming through them; an airport bookstore will order 175 copies of something off the best seller list, and just keep stocking them as the piles are decimated by people waiting for their flights to board.
(signed, jealous of Dan Brown)
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2004 7:07:42 am PDT #3513 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Must be a pain, though, because unless the store is before the scanners, I don't think they let the causal shopper get through these days.
Who does any sort of casual shopping in an airport anyway?
For me it's always "Fuck. Long flight. Forgot book." If they had a decent selection, I'd always buy one instead of a crap magazine, or Scientific American which I'll only half read anyway.
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2004 7:10:37 am PDT #3514 of 10002
brillig
For a good used bookstore I'll travel a couple of hours.
deborah grabien - Jun 18, 2004 7:14:02 am PDT #3515 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"Fuck. Long flight. Forgot book."
Yep. And the volume of traffic through airport bookstores - the number of people with exactly that thought, or its close relative "Fuck. Flight delayed by two hours. Need something else to read." - is huge.