Totally understandable!

lol Seriously.

Ooh, schools! I missed that one, thank you for bringing it up! (And not being a pedantic asshole, like roughly half the replies to my original comment currently are!)

Don’t throw an idiom into a sentence that includes actual advice, then!

Then maybe the author shouldn’t have stuck it literally in the middle of a sentence including other phrases (“buy a Kindle, regret nothing”) not meant to be taken figuratively?

Thanks, but I won’t!

Textbooks are definitely trickier, and that’s mostly because they’re part of their own whole sub-genre, essentially run by textbook printers, who are basically grifters at this point (e.g. printing one or two new pointless lines and dubbing something a new “edition,” needlessly outdating the prior one).

It varies, library to library. I was suggesting the author not be lazy as hell and actually look into other options before tossing them. Some accept donations (typically for sales), some don’t. It takes like, 5 minutes to call and find out.

Meanwhile, I am really not looking forward to figuring out -- and for the first time -- how dealing with filing for a 50% LLC business partnership is about to affect my taxes...

To each their own. I tried an e-reader earlier on, and found I have very little memory of anything I tried to read on it. Apart from seriously disliking the overall feel of the experience -- versus reading a physical book -- there is a lot of research just coming out to back this up; what we take in on screens we have…

Otherwise, throw that shit to the curb, buy a Kindle, regret nothing.

As a bookseller of 10+ years: thank you.

Um, moved my book collection four separate times? Packing and moving books is not all that different from moving kitchenware or furniture.

Rich people are habitually the stingiest about everything. It would be funny, if it weren’t horrendous.

From what I’ve heard around town, Cruise has been an advocate for bringing potentially as many of the previously introduced badass ladies as possible — he initially hoped to have Patton and Maggie Q both back for Part 5, but scheduling conflicts didn’t allow for it, which is a shame, ‘cause that would’ve been awesome.…

She bothers me because, once this all took off, she started a line of branded storage boxes. That literally goes against her own philosophy in the book that started this whole thing.

I work in a secondhand book and record shop, so... same.

HECK YES NECTARINES

That’s the problem with a piece of writing going viral like this; a lot of people don’t carry over the genre or context as it gets away from them, and for many people there’s a lot of confusion about what genres are what. (I tend to forget this, having been in the book business for so long, until customers who aren’t…