Reply #80: Bookstore secrets

[chowder66]

I worked at a few bookstores. Luckily they were small. No public bathrooms or food for sale. Thank goodness.

The only things I can think of that were not even all that secret were tearing off the covers of paperbacks to return and then throwing the rest of the book away. I hated that. What a waste! And we couldn't take them or donate them.

The other big secret was while working in Hollywood, at a bookstore, several men in suits would come in and buy all of the L. Ron Hubbard books, then they would return them right then and there. This was approved by the manager. This was so Scientology could get their books on the best sellers list. Old dead Hubbard would then write more books from beyond the grave (Xeno must have been his ghost-writer) and the process would start all over again. Creepy.

The mega-bookstores always turned me off plus I hated pushing "discount cards" for one bigger chain.

I actually miss working in a bookstore. I enjoyed not being stuck at a desk all day. Ahhhh books.