#booksellers

[ebookporn]

Breathing

#librarians #writers on tumblr #writerslife #literacy #booksellers #reading #book tumblr #readers of tumblr

[othmeralia]

Looks like Peter Parker is both Spiderman and bookseller!

Found in A treatise of the scurvy, examining the different opinions and practice, of the most solid and grave writers... by Everhard Marynwaringe (1672).

#rare books #old books #peter parker #spiderman #booksellers #books #printing press #book history #othmeralia

[booksinmythorax]

So you're an adult who wants to start reading for fun, but you don't know where to start

I'm a librarian, and I hear at least once a week from people who sheepishly tell me that they'd love to start reading for fun (for the first time or after a long break). Here's my best advice broken down into bullet points, but start here: there is no shame in being a beginner.

-Think about what you do enjoy and start from there. So you're not a book person. Do you like movies? Television? Podcasts? Music? Tabletop games? Video games? What other media do you like and what does it have in common? Make a little list and Venn diagram that shit.

Maybe you're into stories about fucked-up families (Sharp Objects, Succession) or found families (lots of realplay TTRPG podcasts, Leverage, Avatar: The Last Airbender) or fucked-up found families (various Batman media, Steven Universe, The Good Place). Maybe you mainly watch or listen to stuff for the romance (Taylor Swift music, The Best Man, Heartstopper) or the sci-fi horror (The Magnus Archives, M3gan, Nope) or the romantic sci-fi horror (Welcome to Night Vale). And hey, maybe you're not a fictional media person at all. What do you like? What do you want to know about? World history? True crime? Home improvement? Birdwatching? Gardening? Various animals and their behavior? Human psychology? Cooking? If it's a thing, there are books about it. Start there.

Think about why you started to dislike reading. Did an adult snatch a book you thought looked cool out of your hands and say "Don't read that, it's below your reading level/above your reading level/a comic, not a real book"? Did school give you an endless parade of miserable, bleak books and tell you they were universal stories about the human condition? Or did it maybe only give you stories with saccharine, unearned happy endings, or only show you stories about straight cis wealthy abled white kids, or keep you from reading entire books at all in favor of endlessly dissecting tiny passages out of context? (For some vindication, check out "How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading" by John Holt.) Did you have an older sibling or a friend who was better at reading? Did adults put you in competition with that other kid and make you feel like shit about it? Were you in a situation where you were good at reading in one language, or even more than one, but required to read in another that you were still learning? Did this make you feel like you were "behind schedule" or like you shouldn't read at all? Or was reading just harder for you than it seemed for other people? Did reading give you headaches? Did the letters or numbers seem to float around on the page? Was it hard for you to focus for long enough to get through a whole book? Did you need to learn to read differently than the kids around you could? Did adults punish you for this instead of helping you? (Look, I'm not a doctor, but if any of these apply to you, consider going to an optometrist, a psychologist, and/or a psychiatrist to talk about these things if they're persistent and interfere with your life.) Or maybe you're burned out on reading. Maybe you did an advanced degree in literature or writing or history or some other reading-heavy discipline and you're just tired. Maybe your professors or classmates got snobby about what constituted "literary" works and their good opinion didn't line up with what you actually enjoy. You get to be sad and angry about these things, if they happened to you. They're also clues to how to move forward if you'd like to read more, or enjoy reading more.

Give yourself permission to read whatever you want, in whatever way you want. Wanna start with young adult books? Middle grade books? Awesome. Many of them have stories that are sophisticated and complex. Starting with re-reading the first books you enjoyed reading could help jog your memory about why you initially found it fun. Hell, even picture books are a good start. Have you read a picture book lately? Those things are getting cooler every day. Comics and graphic novels? Those count as reading. Many of them are published for adults, though again, the ones published for a middle-grade or young adult audience are often complex and moving. If you're an anime fan, give manga a shot. The source material for many anime go deeper into the characters and stories, especially now that anime seasons are often truncated to 12 episodes for entire series. (The right-to-left thing is easier to get used to than you think, too.) Romance novels and mystery thrillers and science fiction and fantasy? Those count as reading. Many of the things you might have liked about the books you read as a child or a teenager are present in adult "genre" fiction, and many of the things you might despise about adult "literary" fiction (god, I hate that word, but that's another post) may be absent from those titles. E-books and audiobooks definitely count as reading, and they're often more accessible than paper books for some people. Anybody who tries to genre- or format-shame you is a dick and not worth talking to.

Go to your local library. All right, shameless self-promotion here, I'll admit it. But I promise you, if you walk into a library and say "I'm an adult, I stopped reading a while ago, and I'd like to start back up again but I need suggestions," you will make someone's day. I get asked for my opinion about books approximately once a month. I get asked how to use the printer approximately eighty-five times a day. I love helping with the printer and I'm saying that unironically, but my colleagues and I absolutely adore "readers' advisory" questions. If you come with the answers to the above questions about your preferred genres, formats, and reasons you'd like to read, it'll help the process, but most of us are trained to ask follow-up questions to get you the best possible book match. Do not apologize. You are not bothering us. It is literally part of our job. We want people to know that reading is fun, and you are a people.

#librarians and booksellers: i would love it if you added more tips to this #librarians #booklr #books and reading #reading #literacy #media #young adult #book recommendations #public libraries #books & libraries #booksellers #books #comic books #adult literacy #media literacy #child literacy

[mysharona1987]

#Books #waterstones #Literature #Booksellers #Reading #Comics

[themadbard]

You all should check out my new Instagram account for bookselling. Rare books and collectibles! Free shipping the US!

Just look up Geddes Rare Books and you'll find me.

Also please reblog it'd really help.

#books #bookcore #bookblr #rare books #antiques #collectibles #booksellers #dark academia #old books #first edition #autograph #instagram #art #cottagecore #poetry #fiction #novel #novella #banned books

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

This is my second read-through of this small collection of letters between Helene Hanff and the staff at Marks & CO., Booksellers and how their relationships grew through the letters and through the years. Just lovely, and I love how Helene Hanff writes, she's hilariously dry!

#84 charing cross road #helene hanff #booksellers #letters #book #currently reading #book talk #booklr #reading

[worstjourney]

One Foot on Turtle Island

Only one shop in the US is cool enough to stock Worst Journey – if you've been waiting for a domestic source, check out Silver Sprocket!

If you’re in the US and you’ve been waiting for a way to get hold of Worst Journey Vol.1 without paying exorbitant shipping fees in a foreign currency, you are in luck! Silver Sprocket, an indie comics shop in the hip Mission district of San Francisco, is ordering a big new shipment soon. Head on over to their site and click on “notify me when available” to get a heads-up when the new stock comes in. You may even luck into a signed copy if you’re quick!

I am in very early days of a discussion with a Canadian publisher who also distributes in the States, so there is a thin probability there will be wider distribution in the year ahead. For now, though, Silver Sprocket is super cool, and they’ve just had to cope with a flood in their basement, so please send your business their way!

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#the worst journey in the world #graphic novel #us distribution #usa #books #booksellers #indie comics #silver sprocket #comic books #news #the worst journey in the world graphic novel

[solowinged]

making a prayer post for The shitty coworker to get fired. like to charge. reblog to cast

#pls pray for us #booksellers #retail

[sixbucks]

HB 900 passed in the Legislature and was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year. It is set to go into effect on Sept. 1 and requires book vendors to assign ratings to books based on the presence of depictions or references to sex. In school libraries, books with a “sexually explicit” rating will be removed from bookshelves. And students who want to check out school library books deemed “sexually relevant” would have to get parental permission first.

#Texas tribune #Texas #booksellers #censorship

[knihovnachrastany]

White sands, blue skies... and lots of books. Applications have opened for what might just be the best job in the world: running a bookshop on a luxury desert island in the Maldives

#maldives #books #booksellers #job hunting #libraries #bookworm

[ebookporn]

#terry pratchett #authors #writers #writing #booksellers #librarians #lost stories #book publishing

[megaeralwrites]

My cover reveal is TOMORROW! In the meantime, if you are a librarian, bookseller, book blogger, reviewer, or ARC reader, you can find THE SHABTI on Edelweiss+. Check it out if you're looking for a spooky, queer, noirish thriller that feels like The Mummy (1932) meets Nightmare Alley with a healthy dose of romance mixed in.

#the shabti #ghost stories #2024 debuts #historical fantasy #queer fiction #ancient egypt #lgbtqia books #writing community #librarians #booksellers #bookblr #arc readers #book reviewers #book bloggers #supernatural thriller

[archivlibrarianist]

#afrofuturism #afrofuturist fiction #Sistah Scifi #booksellers

[creator-of-calm-queer-chaos]

Bookshop Tales pt -10: The Absolutely Tiny Part I Played in a Lesbian Wedding, Ft. Fat Bear Week and a Book of Shells

I have a notebook of fun things that have happened at the bookshop I work at and so I'm gonna start posting them. I'm starting at -10 so that I can share things that have happened in the past and I'll also put fun things that happened

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It was October 15th, 2022, almost exactly a year ago.

A lesbian couple came in and asked where our gift/art books were. I showed them and went back to doing some orders. Because the art section is right by the counter where I was, I overheard them mention Fat Bear Week.

SIDE NOTE: GO VOTE RIGHT NOW: https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

I started talking to them about Fat Bear Week and mentioned Jr Fat Bear Week, which they hadn't heard of. I pulled up the page and showed it to them. One of them was super excited about stepping behind the counter and she said it was her lifelong dream, which was adorable. We talked about Fat Bear Week and how cool it was for a bit, then I asked them if I could help them find anything.

They said their wedding was coming up and they were looking for a guest book, but not a regular one. They were looking for a photography collection that people could flip through and sign their name on their favourite page. They asked if I had any suggestions, so I went and looked around to find some.

I suggested Fascinating Shells by Andreia Salvador, which is a beautiful book of different types of shells. The images are super high quality and it is an absolutely gorgeous book.

They actually ended up getting Fascinating Shells, and were some of the sweetest people I've ever met.

#bookshop tales #booksellers #bookshop #bookstore #bookkeeper #bookstore things #bookstore stories

[scotianostra]

13th September 1813 saw the birth of Danial MacMillan, who co-founded the MacMillan Publishing giants.

Born on the Isle of Arran to a crofting family., young Daniel was apprenticed to a bookseller in Irvine, Ayrshire, at the tender age of ten. Daniel moved to Glasgow where he taught in a school for several years, before joining a firm of booksellers in Glasgow and, in 1833 he moved to London, with little more than his canny Scottish instincts and a strong desire to succeed as a book publisher.

In January 1824, Daniel, with his brother’s help, secured a place for himself as an apprentice to Maxwell Dick, a bookseller and bookbinder in Irvine. His contract specified that Daniel would work for Mr. Dick for six years, though his time there continued slightly beyond. He flourished in the job and Maxwell Dick wrote that “the said Daniel has served me with diligence, honesty and sobriety and it is with the utmost confidence I can recommend him as possessing these qualities in a very high degree.”

Daniel had big ambitions, he travelled south and in 1933 travelled south, at first, the 20 year old Daniel worked in a bookstore, which was located near Cambridge University and which specialised in classical authors. Daniel soon gained a reputation amongst University students as a well read, reliable guide to recent publications. 

MacMillan next spent a brief period with a London bookseller, where he was joined by his younger brother, Alexander.

In 1843, the MacMillans opened their own shop, D. & A. Macmillan, at 57 Aldersgate St., in London, and published their first two books, which hardly set the world on fire, their first few years were hard and they flirted with bankruptcy, but stuck to their task and slowly turned things around. Their first big breakthrough came from their friend a backer Charles Kingsley who penned Westward Ho! which was published in 1853. Another success was ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’, by Thomas Hughes. Books such as these, laid the foundations for Macmillan’s strong fiction list.MacMillan’s went on to have some of the most well known authors of the 19th century on its books, Lewis Carroll, Charles Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Maynard Keynes to name but a few.Together with Maurice and Archdeacon  Hare.

Daniel and Alexander became supporters of the reform movement known as ‘Christian Socialism’ and most of their early publications reflected the liberal sentiments of that group, such as its commitment to universal education and as a consequence, the firm became a leading publisher of textbooks and other educational material.Daniel had suffered ill health from a young age and passed away aged 43 in Cambridge, where he is buried at The Mill Road cemetery.

Their publishing talents were not confined to pure literature; the Macmillan family´s vision inspired the creation of enduring copyrights such as Nature, widely considered the world’s leading scientific journal, launched in 1869, Palgrave´s Dictionary of Political Economy in 1899 and Nursing Times in 1905.  Until recently the publishing company was owned by the Macmillan family, who continued to manage the company into the 1970s.One of the involved family members was Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister from 1956 to 1963 who rose through the Churchill and Eden governments via a succession of high offices, and culminated with his becoming Prime Minister, keeping one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the twentieth century. Its prominence in trade publishing continues to this day, but it also has great strengths in the educational and scholarly fields. Macmillan Education and its associate companies and subsidiaries in Africa, Asia, He was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986

The and survives, by name only, with no family connections, they are wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than 30 others.

The pics with the logos are the original and modern day versions. 

#Scotland #scottish #booksellers #publisher #history

[aneverydaything]

Day 1478, 10 July 2022

#shop #book shop #bookshop #bookseller #books #reading #secondhand #antiquarian #Hay-on-Wye #Hay on Wye #Powys #Wales #Cymru #UK #windows #glass #booksellers