End of May

We ended the month with 2,865 books in inventory. About what we usually have.

Yes we actually count the books at month end! It only takes about 30 minutes for one counter (me.)

So far this calendar year we have sold 10,101 books. We average a book sale about every 40 seconds that the store is open.

The inventory turns rapidly so there are always new books. Whatever comes in each day goes on the shelf that day.

David Sneed

Encyclopedias

Usually we throw out encyclopedias. They are obsolete as everyone now goes to the internet for information in any desired context. The likelihood of unedited errors are viewed as more desirable than information that was correct years ago that is now no longer true.

We did put out a 21 volume Handyman's Encyclopedia and it sold immediately. I guess it can be said that some information retains truth.

David Sneed

We Get Poetry

We do get poetry books at Meals on Wheels.  One good one is called Good Poems compiled by Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion on Public Radio. FRom that book is is Dilemma by David Budbill, a poet from Vermont, who deserves to be famous. 


I want to be 

            famous

so I can be

            humble

about being 

            famous.

What good is my

           humility

when I am

           stuck

in this

           obscurity?

There is good poetry and bad poetry. I like the shorter poems like Dilemma. 

David Sneed