Dear Jake,
Your warehouse sounds wonderful. Lit fiction, history, science and art, right
up my street. Must start training the grandchildren.
Yes I often order books in the way you describe, and wonder how anyone can make
a living given the very small cost of secondhand books plus postage, but it
must work, and thankfully there are still loads of books being printed and old
ones made available.
Trouble with that method is, I’ll need a title. I’ve shelved so many kids books
at Faringdon library that I should be able to think of one or two….
All the best,
Lauren
On 3 Apr 2020, at 13:15, Jake <jake.away@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Lauren
You are right to ask me, if you could glimpse where I am typing from you
would see (apart from the general mess) books piled everywhere. I rent farm
buildings (former fruit storage hangers mostly) and over the years have
spread out and filled them up with many hundreds of thousands of books.
Unfortunately for your query though the one thing we have never really done
is kids books. In our sector it is quite crowded with people who do. Our
focus is on content driven adult books. Lit fiction, history, science and
art. That sort of thing.
There is still time for you to order online from someone else and get
delivery before Easter. My suggestion would be Amazon but instead of buying
from Amazon itself, once you have found a book you want click the "new and
used from £xx" where you will see that same book from independent sellers
like myself who sell under the amazon platform. It's generally cheaper too.
You can see feedback on the sellers concerned, anything less than 90%
positive you probably want to avoid. Obviously there are countless other
perfectly good online stores to buy books from.
Best of luck and yes books > chocolate for young and old!
Jake
On 03/04/2020 12:53, Lauren Gale wrote:
Jake, does your warehouse have any preschool children’s books?
(Can’t give the grandchildren Easter eggs, books better for them anyway)
Number One has mega concentration for looking at pictures and explanations
of how things work (especially mechanical things), and can cope with Junior
Non-Fiction.
Number Two is under a year - so anything his parents can read to him -
they’ve been evacuated at short notice sans books. French okay too. So maybe
- anything at all for children!
Yours in hope
Lauren
