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Anybody else have this experience at used book stores?
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LOL, I spend a lot of time thinking. "I think I have that one, let me check my goodreads app."
When I enter a used book store I generally stop, take a deep breath and soak up the smells and ambiance. It takes a few minutes before my eyes are accustomed to the cavalcade of bindings that are lined so perfectly on the shelves. Eventually my eyes stop (generally by a large book) and I start noting titles. I don’t have a Goodreads app but my memory isn’t completely disabled and I can usually spot new titles. I can lose myself in a bookstore or library and time is no longer an issue. I have always said that my ideal vacation would be in a library and once (twenty years ago) I spent two weeks in a very large one. I must admit it wasn’t a very social vacation (and certainly not for everyone) but I enjoyed it. I think if you look through a bookstore and leave it saying “I have them all” I will say to you “You are very rich indeed!”
Yes! This is happening to me all the time now in new and used bookstores. So, I've starting looking into reading novels/ authors that I wouldn't normally read so the trip to the store isn't in vain. I love it!
You pegged it, Thom. I now carry a little notebook with me, with tons of titles and authors recorded in it. I do not have a cell phone, so apps are not available. I love walking into our little neighbourhood used book store. I can spend hours in there!
We are planning a trip to the states in Dec., and I would like to find some good used book stores in the cities we are visiting. I suspect I would find different availability of books than here in southern Ontario.
Cheers, Thom!
Laurel
No cell phone? I didn’t know that there were still people without them. Oh well, that makes you one of the few and certainly unique. If I might make a suggestion……use Goodreads to find those out of the way bookstores in the cities you are planning to visit. We have members literally everywhere so I am sure you can get some valuable information. In any case, good luck, good trip and good hunting!
Every time I go to a book store, I end up buying at least one book I have already.
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Laurel, what cities are you coming to visit? Thom has a good suggestion, fellow Goodread members might be able to give you some good suggestions of stores to check out.
Joseph wrote: "Laurel wrote: "You pegged it, Thom. I now carry a little notebook with me, with tons of titles and authors recorded in it. I do not have a cell phone, so apps are not available. I love walking in..."
Thank you, Thom and Joseph for making such a great suggestion. In Dec., we are visiting Williamsburg, Fort Lauderdale, St. Augustine, and Orlando. Dying to see the Magic Kingdom decorated for Christmas! but will be leaving before the huge crowds arrive.
We are snow birds, after all. Have to maintain our reputations as good Canadians escaping from the cold of the Big, White North!
Over the next couple of years, we have six extensive road trips of 6-7 weeks length, planned throughout the US and Canada. Stops include many civil war sites including Gettysburg, plus visits to Washington, D.C., the Florida Keys, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, many major cities and tons of national parks and museums. I want to visit Deadwood, the Alamo, Monument Valley, and countless other historic and geographic locations. He has also planned a 4 week visit to Hawaii, covering all of the islands.
We are both extremely interested in history, museums, and gardening, so we have made a list of places with horticultural attractions. Not to mention a drive through our own Canadian Rockies ( I went west as a kid-he has not seen them). Then, a visit to Canada's east coast, too. We have shelves of Fodors and Frommes travel guides. Thank goodness we both love planning!
A long-winded answer to your inquiry, but I should be able to make lots of contacts with fellow GRers. Just have to remember to allot some of my travel budget for books. Came home with an armload of civil war books when we visited Richmond! And we are going to buy a cell phone to use while we are away, although we have ONstar in our vehicle. So I will be joining the rest of the world, technologically speaking.
Yes I do this all the time. Especially with classics I cant remember if I own it or not
I don't remember ever walking out of a book store (new or used) without finding a book I want. My ex used to try to keep me out of them because of how long I spend in them when I go! He finally just learned to stay home if I was going to a bookstore :)
Any time I need a pick me up I stroll through a used book store!
I got tired of buying duplicates, even from a garage sale, so have a notebook of my favorite authors and series. I no longer have to carry it with me anymore, now that I have an app on my phone for GRs so I can tell if I have the book or not. Usually, all I see that interests me, I already have. I did recently find another useful app though. I trade books through paperbackswap (PBS) and this app lets you scan a books ISBN and lets you know if it's on anybody's PBS wish list. I just bought 5 new hardback books at the local dollar store as they were on PBS wishlists.
Joseph wrote: "Why does it seem every time I go to visit a used book store, more and more often as I go down the aisles looking at titles, I'm saying to myself, "Got it, got it, got it,..." :-)"I do in specific circumstances, such as when looking for a particular series (my New Naturalist series collecting comes under this, though I do often find books from the series I don't have but those tend to be the ones I'm not really interested in getting), but the shops I go to have such a broad range of books (usually quite obscure titles too) that I rarely have a fraction of their books. I'd worry if I had most of them as those places are rabbit warrens packed with books floor to ceiling! :-D
Possibly different if you buy a lot of fiction and certainly if you buy what I'd call 'chick lit' then it would be easy to go to charity shops and find almost nothing but books you have, those places do tend to have a high proportion of that genre!
ஐ Briansgirl (Book Sale Queen)ஐ wrote: "I got tired of buying duplicates, even from a garage sale, so have a notebook of my favorite authors and series. I no longer have to carry it with me anymore, now that I have an app on my phone for..."I made some lists too, at first in a notebook but I've started transferring them to a program called evernote now I have a mobile phone that can run this - means I always have them on me even if I don't have my backpack (where I kept the notebook). It means I can update the lists on my laptop and then sync it to the phone, to save having to type them in on the little touch screen.
I, too carry a little notebook in my purse when I go anywhere near a retail establishment that has books.
That happened to me at yard sales this past weekend and I wasn't happy till I found a book.
