If you really want to visit there , make a decision and DO it SteveIf I ever have enough money, I might have a week's holiday there.
Up the Kindle, forward to the future! I love my kindle, an entire library packed away in my bag when I travel, not having to guess what I'll feel like reading before I get there, less environmental impact from my reading habit... I don't see a downside, personally.This^. Though I do like a good bookshop, particularly a good second hand one to browse in, and get books that aren't on e-readers, or aren't particularly suited.
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This^. Though I do like a good bookshop, particularly a good second hand one to browse in, and get books that aren't on e-readers, or aren't particularly suited.
E-readers have no soul.
E-readers have no soul.
Just discovered that one of several claimants to be England's largest second-hand bookshop is in Rochester - Baggins' Book Bazaar. That could easily be got to and back from by train in a day, leaving plenty of time to explore the sop. I'l do that in the new year. Wigtown is a minimum of nine hours by train and bus, and probably costs the earth. Might be good for a week's holiday, but obviously not for a day trip. Hay-on-Wye, with the two largest shops in Wales, is similarly impractical to visit for a day. So - Rochester it is, in the new year.I will be in the environs of Wigtown in May. Haven't been in an age.
Just discovered that one of several claimants to be England's largest second-hand bookshop is in Rochester - Baggins' Book Bazaar. That could easily be got to and back from by train in a day, leaving plenty of time to explore the shop. I'l do that in the new year. Wigtown is a minimum of nine hours by train and bus, and probably costs the earth. Might be good for a week's holiday, but obviously not for a day trip. Hay-on-Wye, with the two largest shops in Wales, is similarly impractical to visit for a day. So - Rochester it is, in the new year.
I LOVE MY KINDLE. :) I wasn't keen when our kids suggested I bought one some years ago, but I am so very glad they persuaded me to do so. My husband is fond of his too. We have been able to get rid of loads of books to charities, thank goodness, we had so many our home resembled a library.ahh ! Charities , that great dumping ground that combines sanctimony and a clear conscience that you're doing good whilst getting rid of your old tat
A bookshop I love that used to be relatively close to me:
http://www.scarthinbooks.com/
A bookshop I love that used to be relatively close to me:looks interesting until I saw the Vegan Cafe .
http://www.scarthinbooks.com/
looks interesting until I saw the Vegan Cafe .
I won't be visiting there !
Charities don't sell old tat, Walter, only clean stuff in good condition. Tatty books go in the paper recycling bin, clothes into the rag bag (they sell rag)(but we're talking about books).Brilliant! thanks for the info.
Steveh, I've been to Baggins' Book Bazaar, it's a really good place.
http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/bookshop-reviews/baggins-book-bazaar-rochester
A bookshop I love that used to be relatively close to me:That looks bloomin' fantastic.
http://www.scarthinbooks.com/
There is a chippy just down the street.https://youtu.be/QccPUSTMriM
Robbie ,
I didn't say charities sell old tat . I was referring to people who give their old tat to charities .
There is a difference 🙈
Our books were in excellent condition, we would NEVER give rubbish to a charity shop.im glad to hear it but a lot do !
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I called into a second hand bookshop yesterday .think it works better if you say and on it was 1 second hand kindle
There was just one shelf . It was full of second hand kindles !
think it works better if you say and on it was 1 second hand kindleyou're right , perhaps that's why gag writers work in pairs ?
you're right , perhaps that's why gag writers work in pairs ?I think it helps joke writing - I quite often think of a one liner on here but can't quite get it right so don't post but am sure that it's just missing another view. I also think that your line is better as a sketch where someone arrives in a town and sees signs to
I think it helps joke writing - I quite often think of a one liner on here but can't quite get it right so don't post but am sure that it's just missing another view. I also think that your line is better as a sketch where someone arrives in a town and sees signs tohaha great stuff .Second Hand Bookshop - Thousand of Books = turn right,Second Hand Bookshop = All Your Favourites - turn left,Second Hand Bookshop - Superb Selection of Titles - Straight AheadAnd then you get to a bookshop where you pan in and see empty old vintage shelves floor to ceiling, and look round and focus on the 1 shelf with the single kindle
haha great stuff .Walter and Nearly, Jokes and Japes. We do need to get you to the hallowed Babbity's.
Do you fancy teaming up , I've got a back catalogue of about 2000 or more mainly one liners I've written down as they occur to me on my travels ?
Walter and Nearly, Jokes and Japes. We do need to get you to the hallowed Babbity's.Live Sessions eh?
How to upgrade your Kindle to a Kindle Fire: take half a gallon of petrol and a box of matches...
Shaun Bythell, in 'Confessions of a Bookseller'.
"Nearly sane Walter", surely? Full billing for both of you!
They're machines. Why would they need a soul?
And sorry but, if it's a choice between lugging three or four heavy lumps of wood pulp on holiday or a small plastic device that gives me access to thousands of books, I'll take the latter.