memes

Back when Amazon first came out they were only doing books. They often had books other bookstores didn't have or carry and they were packaged with care. Nowadays any book you get from Amazon is usually printed crappily, with pages stuck together, cut off, or not even cut. Then they throw it in a box without packing where it bounces around and gets bent up. Regular bookstores now have good online platforms and if they don't have a book in store they can almost always order it. I know I'll get a quality print that isn't bent to crap. The only downside is occasionally they'll stick stickers somewhere that you're pretty sure the gods themselves super glued onto it.

Funny, but not like haha funny.

I really miss our used book store. It was tiny but packed, and it had that smell.

Barnes and Noble is on a hard upswing recently, and are expanding., mainly by allowing local stores to stock what sells in their areas.

Still, buy from bookshop.org if you can. Its a coalition of thousands of small bookshops where the vast majority of profits from purchases flow right back to them instead of megacorps.

That was my favourite thing to do, go to Borders on Cheshire Oaks, grab a book go to the cafe and read, then it went under. I really miss those days. I love my local library but it just doesn't have up to date books. Occasionally when I go on holiday I'll visit a local bookshop in the village.

Sure, sure... but it all seems to be an interconnected web.

I could read in release order, but that can get rather disconnected... There doesn't seem to be a good starting point.

So, that is what has stopped me.

Like knowing you need to clean up a disaster, but you just look at it and have no idea where to even begin approaching it. Throw in some executive dysfunction issues, and it seems the only time I can "find" to read for pleasure is when I have something else more important to do that I'm unable to start on.