(Sidenote: I cannot tell you of my enraged reaction to You've Got Mail, even as a teenager. The big bookstore corporation and its slimy, manipulative, lying mouthpiece won? The douchebag gets the girl and closes down her store and that was sold to us as an actual happy ending. What the hell was a film from 1987 doing in 1998?)
THANK YOU! That is exactly how I felt when I watched that movie and why I'll never watch it again. I kept waiting for the little bookstore to kick the box store's ass and wait, what? He WINS? Are you shitting me? So, so angry.
And you know what's awesome too, small bookstores can generally order any book you can order online. That does require that you go out and speak to another person, which I'm generally not in favour of. But they can do it -- and if you're just browsing, most of the time the clerk will leave you alone.
We have a small used bookstore here, which also sells new books. First off, when you turn books in for trade, you get credit on other used books. All new books are automatically 10% off without me having to sign up for a card or whatever. And Jim will order any book you want, as long as he can find it in the database, for no extra charge.
On top of that, he has a PHENOMENAL memory for the books in his store. He almost always knows what he has used and can help you find anything you might want. But he'll leave you alone if you don't need him. And that is why I almost exclusively shop there for books (except the airport bookstore impulse buys) rather than the big box stores, of which we have two plus assorted Wally World & Target.
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THANK YOU! That is exactly how I felt when I watched that movie and why I'll never watch it again. I kept waiting for the little bookstore to kick the box store's ass and wait, what? He WINS? Are you shitting me? So, so angry.
And you know what's awesome too, small bookstores can generally order any book you can order online. That does require that you go out and speak to another person, which I'm generally not in favour of. But they can do it -- and if you're just browsing, most of the time the clerk will leave you alone.
We have a small used bookstore here, which also sells new books. First off, when you turn books in for trade, you get credit on other used books. All new books are automatically 10% off without me having to sign up for a card or whatever. And Jim will order any book you want, as long as he can find it in the database, for no extra charge.
On top of that, he has a PHENOMENAL memory for the books in his store. He almost always knows what he has used and can help you find anything you might want. But he'll leave you alone if you don't need him. And that is why I almost exclusively shop there for books (except the airport bookstore impulse buys) rather than the big box stores, of which we have two plus assorted Wally World & Target.