This bookstore has three levels. The basement is dedicated to used books, and while I love the vibe of the entire store the basement is something special
Each book holds a little bit of the emotions of its previous readers. The laughter, the heartbreak, the surprise, the anger. They hold a little bit of the love and hatred from it’s previous owners. That’s something I love about used books
Plus, there is a coffee shop right across the road AND dogs are allowed
Bookstore: Pages
Location: Kensington, Calgary
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Best reasons not to have a home library —
You have to take down all the books to dust the bookshelves.
Then you have put all the of the books back on the shelves again.
Then you have to replace the shelves when they give out.
What happens if you have to move? Hiring movers is expensive.
What if you have to ship the books overseas?
You have to unpack all of the books after you move again
And maybe even rebuild the bookshelves.
Or buy new ones.
Or wait to have new ones installed.
Its a waste of money to buy books just so you can bring them home and never touch them again.
If you didn’t want the book what makes you think the library will?
Can’t think of anywhere else to donate the books, can you?
Time to find someone to help you build that Little Free Library.
You constantly have to shoo kids away from books they’re too young to read.
If you don’t they might end up permanently traumatized depending on the material.
You have to keep your pets off the shelves. Especially cats.
The cats will knock over your knickknacks and get into territory wars over the highest shelves and will use the bookshelf as a scratching post.
Dogs pee on tall objects.
Money and budgeting are the number one cause of fights in a romantic relationship.
What happens when you run outta space for the bookshelves?
What happens when you run out of space for the books — go watch an episode of Hoarders. A book hoard is nowhere near as fun as you think it is.
The local librarian is the tiniest bit annoyed that you only show up to drop off the books that you hate.
Without even asking if the library is accepting donations.
They wonder if you really don’t realize how rude and thoughtless it is to show up at a library without ever renting a book just to give them your castoffs.
They wonder how you expect them to keep their doors open while they’re losing patronage to Barnes & Nobles, and motherfucking Jeff Bezos.
They know that people who don’t use libraries are unlikely to vote to increase the funding for them. The libraries, that is.
Without your patronage they have to cut down on the number of Ebooks and paper magazines they can rent out.
Without your patronage they have to cancel story hour.
When you die your family has to figure out what to do with all the books you never touched.
And the local library shuts down forever.
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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
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Author copies of WISHING SEASON arrived and Tato has some concerns. (Don’t worry, Tato. Of course there’s a dog in it.) Jacket art by Kailey Whitman with design by Andrea Vandergrift. The design details in this one are gorgeous—I can’t wait for you to see it. Coming in hardcover, audio, and ebook in nine short days (June 27). 💚 What should I bake for the party?
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