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More Bookstore Employees Should Try Handselling Books to Their Customers

by Avid Reader on August 10, 2009

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Series Books and When Should They End?

by Avid Reader on August 4, 2009

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I have a lot more respect for authors who end their own series ver­sus when the pub­lisher does it due to poor sales. The lat­ter really does make some read­ers really angry. Some long-standing series really do need to stop, Diana Gabal­don any­one? Gabaldon’s books are thou­sands upon thou­sands of pages long.
The pro­tag­o­nists in her books […]

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TBR Day Contest Tally

by Avid Reader on September 17, 2008

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Ok, I know most of you are enjoy­ing read­ing those buried trea­sures you bought years ago. The $100 Ama­zon gift card is just the icing on the cake for you.
First, let me say that I appre­ci­ate every­body par­tic­i­pat­ing even if it was for the one time or three. I’ve enjoyed read­ing everybody’s reviews and see­ing what […]

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What is Everybody Reading?

by Avid Reader on February 18, 2008

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I am hav­ing a dif­fi­cult time find­ing some­thing to read. I’ve started and stopped sev­eral books over the week­end. It seems as if NOTHING is of inter­est to me. Read­ers help me out here — what are you all read­ing? Is it any good? Any­thing you’ve read recently that was a keeper?

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TBR Day: The Specifics

by Avid Reader on February 14, 2008

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Here are the specifics for TBR day as I think we’ve ironed out the details. For my new peo­ple — TBR are those books that are still wait­ing to be read. Our goal is to focus more time on our TBR stock­piles that have accu­mu­lated over the years. Some read­ers are already doing this which is great. Some […]

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