No?
Good.
1. How many people out there would pay $175 dollars a pop for nifty … huh. Actually, now that I think about this, it might not be a bad idea. The question is one of editorial oversight, and I suppose a little legal consideration: but. Nice editions of public domain books? Not actually a terrible idea. I mean, at least that much each, and oh boy limited edition… and what would Google say? (Also, I’d have to get over my fear of InDesign and figure out how to actually make printing four-up or eight-up work.)
2. I am fairly certain that I need to get over the detached chain stitch, which I am using to make lazy daisies, and … it’s out of hand.
3. There’s something broken in the way people think about books. I can’t figure out what it is. Well, ok, some of it is that people are unwilling to think critically in a historical context, and some of it is that I think we’ve lost track, as a group, of how bookselling profit works. You know, think back to lending libraries. It’s just like Netflix. Only with paper. And less mail. (Of course, who remembers that there used to be multiple daily mail deliveries in certain places?)
4. Why does anybody want to work in a bookstore, anyway?
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#4 – masochism?
Sadly, yes.