The Moral Of This Story Is That When You See A Bestselling Novel You Want To Read At The Supermarket

[redbrunja]

for  4$, you buy it, because otherwise you are going to have to wait for the 35 people who put a hold on Girl With The Dragon Tattoo before you to read one of the four copies the public library owns.

And in some insane twist of economics, despite it being a best-selling novel which means there must be hoards of copies out there, no one is selling it for 1.50$ on amazon.com.

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[okroginator.livejournal.com]

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|

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

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.

Yeah, that does sound pretty not-fun.

And I've read Bite Me - it's a hoot!

Sadly, I take home loads of books every week, but due to the job itself, I have no time to read them. D|

Isn't that always the way?