Beware the bored bookdealer

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Inspired by this video, I am training my stock.  I can see a musical effort at Olympia beckoning.   Alas the KP Perfect Pony collection will not co-operate because of my refusal to allow each book to wear a hand-built Swarovski bookmark, but the rest are coming along very nicely, very nicely indeed.

Comments

Val said…
totally crackers ...lol

this short video has no connection with this blog post except it too made me laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EElqrgk4N0&feature=related
25 February 2011 at 19:05
Ali Mal said…
Can you write a training manual please :) Perhaps you could hold training workshops, my books need help :)
25 February 2011 at 19:47
Anonymous said…
OMG, now I'm imagining my books doing this while I'm asleep!
26 February 2011 at 10:59
Jane Badger said…
I think the idea of a training workshop is an excellent one. Maybe there's a business opportunity there: you could have the British Book Society Assistant Instructor; Instructor; Fellow even for the really advanced. I can see it now.
26 February 2011 at 11:07
Christina Wilsdon said…
This is wonderful. off to spread it on Facebook. (I think my books do the opposite while I am asleep. They disorganize themselves.)
26 February 2011 at 16:46
Jane Badger said…
I think my books do the same. I hav a load of David Severns in at the moment, and one of them is always somewhere the others aren't. I think it might be because I have two copies of that title.
27 February 2011 at 11:59
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