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Book Trout
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- Author: Rachel Jagareski
- Listed in: Books
- Tags: book reviews reading literary bookshops bookstores used and rare books
- Added on: Feb 7th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Blogging about books, Book selling, book reading, book loving from our used and rare bookstore, Old Saratoga Books, in upstate New York.
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Literary Libations
When one first thinks of writers and alcohol, it is hard-drinking Ernest Hemingway's weary visage that pops into view. Poor Hemingway, tormented by mental demons in an unfortunate era of shock treatment therapy, certainly drank in the same driven wa...
1940s Book Rental Jacket
It was the era of the book rental library during the 1940s. We often see books come into the shop bearing the stamps and desecrations of the rental librarian. The poor dust jackets arrive with lots of sticky black residue along the margins from old...
The How To Section in the Bookshop
One of the bookstore ideas Dan and I kicked around when planning for our open shop was to specialize in How To books, those books that explain how to fix things, renovate buildings, plant gardens, learn how to play a harmonica, etc. We were basing t...
Monthly Book Contest at the Book Trout
Last month I announced that The Book Trout would be giving away a free copy of Anita Diamant's book, The Red Tent. All entrants had to do was a post a comment about our original posting. We received four entries, so through the power of bibliomancy ...
Using Ebay in the Open Bookshop
Selling books directly in an open shop is a wonderful way to meet customers, discuss literary ideas and favorite authors and move books out of the shop and into customers' home libraries. There's no packing and shipping books off at the post office,...
