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Mistreatment of books. She freaking hates it, and has had enough.
Now she's determined to find away around the tattered tomes the library has to offer.

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Dan

Stained and ragged library books have character.

Now library CDs and DVDs on the other hand... it's like asshole patrons take sandpaper to them as soon as they get them home.

Used bookstores are the best. Like a treasure trove of old and out-of-print classics just waiting to be stumbled upon. None of the fancy-schmancy displays with cardboard cutouts selling the newest NY Times bestsellers that are only of interest to pretentious yuppies blindly obeying the whims of Oprah Winfrey.

And don't get me started on that very special lignin smell.

5170716
But the GOPSIPERS. I hate them and so does Twilight.
I've frankly stopped going to the local one, and now there's legislator to shut it down, going to vote against it, but there's never enough votes to keep them open in WV. :twilightangry2:
Sad to see it go, if it does.

I do see your point, although my town had one. It closed shortly after, but their selection was terrible. Just bad romance and out of date science history. I've been to a better one and found it was nice.

I really liked this. It was a great little read and reminds me of saying goodbye to a couple of bookstores that really molded my youth.

Well done, well done indeed.:twilightsmile::heart:

5170832
Thank you. And I miss being able to sit down and read in quite (mostly in class, but that's beside the point:twilightblush:), now adays, I can never find the time to...

5170843 BOOOOOKS-AAAAA-MILLLIOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!



















Why?

5171047
I feel they push E-readers to much. Those things do not have the same essence as a book. But sadly the only place to buy books where I live... :facehoof:

5171061 AAANNNNNNNNNND that's why I prefer amazon!!!

5170716 I raise a glass to you, my well read and educated friend.





*sips Unidentified Red Substance

reminds me of the first time i ever entered a books a million when i was twelve, i bough my first book there, it was "Tarzan king of apes, by Edgar em Burroughs (I think that how you spell it to lazy to Google.)

half my manga collection came from that store along with all my mlp graphic novels. As long as tablets have limited battery reading will never die.

Dan

5171346

Not to mention DRM. A pox on ereaders.

5171346
I cant even remember my first book, thanks to it being when I was 3 or 4, and some pretty much mind zapping ADHD medicine that whipped a lot of my memories, and even after I stopped taking it the effects lasted tell 7th grade. everything before that point, weird blur.
I'm fine now though [or at least that's what the voices tell me] shut up yellow box.

5171370

The first full book I read was a writeup of Disney's "The Little Mermaid." I can remember sitting in the cushy red chair my parents had gotten from my grandmother and being so proud of myself for finishing the book.

I have to agree with twilight on this the lost of a book store is a crying shame some of the best things that happened in my life was from a bookstore. :fluttercry:

Comment posted by dragonjek deleted Oct 22nd, 2014

Hm... "A Tale of Two Cities" (I think), "Grapes of Wrath", "Oedipus Rex", and... I should recognize the last, but it isn't coming to me.

(Also, I think "Shakespur" is a better ponification of Shakespeare, but that's just me.)

I like it, and completely agree about the unsuitability of library books... although in my case, it's because they always expect me to give the books back.:twilightangry2:

5172831
the last one is a parody of the book the invisible man.
And shakespur would be. if only I thought of it at the time

Reminded me of the one time I actually lost a library book. It was from my high school library, a paperback of DragonLance's Kaz the Minotaur by Richard A. Knaak. When I found out that one of my options was to replace the book, I went to a book store and was quite happy to find a pristine copy with the same cover available. Proudly took it back to school and they thanked me.

For some time after, I would keep an eye out for it but didn't see it (had to be cataloged and all before adding it to the system) until one day, I spotted it in one of the rotating wire paperback racks. I was pleased to have contributed it.

Then later in the school year, I spotted a paperback with the front cover page missing, and It looks rather new... and yup, it's Kaz the Minotaur, the very copy I had bought. Apparently, some s#!thead liked the artwork so much, they decided they would just steal the front cover by ripping it from the spine instead of getting their own copy.

I would describe my emotional state at that moment as "pissed" combined with "white hot outrage".

5179259
Back in middle school bullies would take my books and trash them while I was reading them. Wrote mean things, throwing them in the trash, out the two and three story classroom windows, and even burning one right in front of me.
Lucky for me the school had video of most of the incidents and made them pay for the books, but several books I never got to finish, and I just cant bring myself to pick them back up. Like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (the one they burned)

5170716
They may have character, but there is definitely a point where it ceases to be character and becomes abuse or lack of concern. For what it's worth, cd cases are, though reasonably sturdy, somewhat fragile. They scratch easily and stepping on them will cause them to break... (and probably cause you to slip and fall). I like used bookstores, mostly because they have books I haven't read and sometimes they are better and more interesting books than those presently being written. Yay for reading fiction by increasingly obscure authors.

5171061
Maybe they'll be worth the effort somedays, but there is something distasteful about e-readers. Maybe it's the devaluing of paper books? Books-a-million is a mediocre sort of bookstore that's at least a couple notches below barnes and noble.

5172173
Indeed, it is rather sad. I have a bookmark or two somewhere around from a bookstore that I only visited once or twice and isn't there any more. It's rather unfortunate that, with a few notable exceptions, it is usually the small, independently owned places that disappear.

5179287 On one hand anyone who dares to defile books are the lowest of the low...But on the other hand there's some irony in which book they burnt...

5180453
Sadly I know... its the reason they burned it. Some how it was funny to them...

5179589
I used to love Books-A-Million when I was a kid. Now, going in there I can never find anything, plus I get e-readers shoved in my face. So I don't go in there anymore.

Quite some grammar errors, but enjoyable overall. Good job.

5181084
Thank you. Maybe I should have my editor look over it. Glad you enjoyed It though!:twilightsmile:

5181096
If you'd like and would have a gdoc nearby, I could look it over for you.

5181147
I don't have one for this story. Just transferred it from word. And that's ok, I have an editor. But thank you for the offer! And if you like, I can keep in touch in case I need help. (I ways need help... :pinkiesad2:)

5181192
Sure, hit me up whenever.

And it wouldn't be trouble at all, I could just copy it over to a gdoc and work from there, then provide you with a link with the changes

5181332
I'll do it and pm you a link.

The Invisible Zebra

I'm sorry, I had to:rainbowlaugh:

5180563
Bummer that. Another sad reality about large commercial operations is that they're mostly about making money. If books became a negative profit for them, overnight, they'd disappear overnight as well. That is, if they couldn't make a profit, like if it cost more to acquire than they could sell it for.

There's a used book store in my town. It's owned and operated by these two old ladies, who are the nicest people on the planet, and it has tons of old books that aren't in print anymore. I found a copy of Alien's novelization, a copy of Kon-Tiki, and a beat-up copy of Emergence by David R. Palmer. The last one is so hard to find nowadays, and it'll cost you about $140 or so to get a used paperback copy from Amazon or Ebay. And among the books lying around on the second story, I found a math textbook that was printed in 1890, in pristine condition.

I'll probably cry like a baby if that place ever shuts down...

5189080

There was a shop just like that near where I used to live that did close down. I was broken up about it for ages afterwards. :fluttercry:

That was me at age 7. A stack of books with legs.

Some of the perspective and grammar make it a little odd to read, but the core of this story is too cute to pass up, thanks for sharing this one with us :pinkiehappy:

We only have one bookstore left in our town and it's only got used books (some as bad as the library books Twilight describes!) and is only open a few days a week, but with most bookstores closing it is better than nothing :twilightsheepish:
Unfortunately this also means if they don't have something, I have to resort to ebay/amazon because there are no other options

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