Not as cool as it sounds - it's actually an exhausting, tedious, dirty, awful job that has already alerted me to my own privilege of having access to a college education so I can escape ever having to have a job like this again. Basically, I'm working on a hot, grimy factory floor, standing in one place and lifting large heavy bundles of papers into machines for eight hours.
Nevertheless, I do have access to a lot of mass market books before they are released. Since most bestsellers come out in hardcover before they're released in mass market paperback, I don't really get the Big Ones before they're released, but the employees do have access to free book samples, and if those are taken, one can sometimes snag a copy out of the Dumpster that was torn or improperly bound but still readable. I think my best find was a preview copy (an uncorrected proof they send as a sample to bookstores before actual publishing) of the next Christopher Moore vampire romance, Bite Me.
Sadly, I take home loads of books every week, but due to the job itself, I have no time to read them. D|
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Nevertheless, I do have access to a lot of mass market books before they are released. Since most bestsellers come out in hardcover before they're released in mass market paperback, I don't really get the Big Ones before they're released, but the employees do have access to free book samples, and if those are taken, one can sometimes snag a copy out of the Dumpster that was torn or improperly bound but still readable. I think my best find was a preview copy (an uncorrected proof they send as a sample to bookstores before actual publishing) of the next Christopher Moore vampire romance, Bite Me.
Sadly, I take home loads of books every week, but due to the job itself, I have no time to read them. D|