Building my Used Book Store 100 Books at a Time

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BookJack

BookJack

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@strangementalitypaperYT
@strangementalitypaperYT 8 ай бұрын
My dream has always been to open a "bookstore and cavy cafe," meaning a used bookstore with an attached cat cafe but they're guinea pigs instead of cats...
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Tell me when you open it 🤞Sounds awesome
@phaedrus2633
@phaedrus2633 9 ай бұрын
You have a lot more luck at thrift shop books than I ever had. Usually when I go on vacation I look at the books at the local Goodwill, and, it is pretty slim pickings. You know, I'm going to try the books at the thrift store at Travis AFB. Troops usually have read the kind of books that I like to read.
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Hope you had some good luck at the AFB. It is usually slim pickings but perseverrance usually pays off eventually
@WordsinTime
@WordsinTime 9 ай бұрын
This is a cool endeavor! 📚 Vonnegut’s first novel was Player Piano. It has a Brave New World feel to it. I don’t think he had fully formed his style yet, but it’s still a good read!
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Oh yeah I read that one. Didn't have the dark humor down yet but a very relevant message
@NITEOWLMEDIA2023
@NITEOWLMEDIA2023 9 ай бұрын
I'm sort of doing the same thing with an eBay bookstore. Is it super lucrative? Not necessarily, but part of the joy of a used book store is hunting and finding the books, which is extremely fun and rewarding. I also get a good kick out of cleaning and removing stickers, pencil marks etc. And then occasionally you will find a signed book and that sort of makes your day. Nice video by the way. Always enjoy the 100 book hauls...
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
I find it all very satisfying too. Definitely not in it for the money 😅
@bobbdrake8164
@bobbdrake8164 9 ай бұрын
There are a lot of used bookstores that just sell anything and everything they get in. My own used bookstore, as well as many of the greatest I have seen, has a lot fewer books that one might expect, but every single book I have is curated by me. I have around a total of 6 science fiction books that are not what I would consider as crossovers into literature/classics because I don't really focus on that genre, and focus on literature, cookbooks, history, language/culture and native americana for the most part. Plus whatever other books appeal to me as I find them. I think you'd be fine having a brick and mortar bookstore if you had a space that was inexpensive enough and you used it as a warehouse/shipping center for online books (ideally in a back room separate from the public spaces). I think this is a model that all smaller bookstores need to have to survive now: hybrid online and b&m sales. There are books that will only sell in a physical experience because people don't know to look for them. I started with a small bookstore that was well curated that my now ex-wife and I bought when we were married and then stopped for a few years after I was divorced. When I started again in the business in 2017, I started online and then rented small space in a vintage store/vendor mall (more boutique than mall) and that enabled me to have a physical bookstore without a lot of risk (I paid less than $100 a month for an 8 foot wall about 2 feet deep plus a small commission). Still have a few spaces like that plus my own store, which I share with a friend who sells records. You have the taste and touch to be a great bookstore owner and I hope you can do it one day.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Thanks so much. I was hoping to hear from other used booksellers. There are a few vintage malls around me where I could rent a booth. Maybe a good next step
@araucaria5173
@araucaria5173 9 ай бұрын
Many booktubers don't like " The three body problem". But i really liked it , I also very much enjoyed the second book in this trilogy " The dark forest". But by the time i got to the third one "Deaths end " it had all become little over cooked and I was exhausted by it all . My take home impression still is that books one and two are very interesting and imaginary and i found them entertaining.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
The trilogy got progressively denser for sure. I'm on the same track as you. Deaths End had a lot of interesting concepts but most of them aren't really woven into a compelling narrative
@jdf123
@jdf123 9 ай бұрын
Nice haul! NYRB goes for deep pulls but they’re generally well worth reading.
@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd
@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd 9 ай бұрын
I thought I'd totally given up on 3-body a few yrs ago but now I know obama actually endorsed it I may give it one more shot and glad you're a fan of the waste land it's one of my two fave poems of all time also good luck with your thrift quasi-book store store⚛😀
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! May Obama guide you to many more good books
@B0BsBooks
@B0BsBooks 9 ай бұрын
The super little book of dragons has only one sold for $7.50 in the last 4 months on eBay according to terapeak. I’ve sold manga in Japanese before and leather bound copies of the Quran in Arabic so it is possible ❤ I have several signed copies from Cassandra Clare and honestly the stamp is the nicest instance of her signature. I have a couple where it’s just two really long Cs.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Ah damn 😅 I guess that sounds about right
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 9 ай бұрын
Nice to see some entrepreneurship. Best wishes to you.
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Thanks :)
@keithdixon6595
@keithdixon6595 9 ай бұрын
I live in a French town that bills itself as 'The city of books and associated professions' and indeed there used to be many bookshops in the streets. These days they're closing, and those that stay open have to sell online to make any money - eBay, Abebooks and their own websites. The general marketing of the City is pretty awful, which is a shame because the French do like their culture and do like their books. Of course I can't speak for youngsters, being - in Vonnegut's phrase - an old fart myself. Incidentally, the first two authors at least in that set of NYRB books you had are *very* well known, as is Edith Wharton, of course. 😊 I hope you open the store, but keep selling online!
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Well if a used book store can't survive in a book town then something is up. Sorry if I'm aiding that
@keithdixon6595
@keithdixon6595 8 ай бұрын
No problem. Any book sale is a good book sale!
@dogcreekproject6872
@dogcreekproject6872 9 ай бұрын
About your “48 laws of power” dilemma, just don’t sell it to an inmate! 😂
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Perfect! 😁
@sgtwanderer
@sgtwanderer 9 ай бұрын
Love 3BP, but didn't really like the Mistborn books :/ Felt pretty amateurish tbh.
@bobkeane7966
@bobkeane7966 9 ай бұрын
Card supposedly said something hateful about Gay people. Seeing that he is a religious Mormon I can understand. People need to understand that not everyone has the same opinion and learn to live with it, a different opinion doesn't make something hateful.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
I knew he was a Mormon so I figured it was something like that
@NevsBookChannel
@NevsBookChannel 9 ай бұрын
BTW Tracy Hickman is a guy!
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
Whoops 😅 thanks for letting me know
@xenobeers
@xenobeers 9 ай бұрын
I can only speak to my own reason to avoid Orson Scott Card, is that I personally find very little value in the science fiction of people who are incapable of understanding an evolving sense of truth from their life times. I won't hold Jules Verne to a standard of someone still living, but there is absolutely no excuse for someone who is still alive and within the SFF genre to so staunchly refuse to consider that gender and sexuality is more complicated than previously considered. Just could not care about that writer's take on science or philosophy
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
You make a good point. It's not a trait that a science fiction writer should have
@MotiviqueStudio
@MotiviqueStudio 9 ай бұрын
Klara was awful.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Good to know 😅
@MotiviqueStudio
@MotiviqueStudio 9 ай бұрын
@@bookjack My tastes are specific, I suppose - I loved Never Let Me Go, Remains of the Day didn't move me much, but I enjoyed it in the way I enjoy well-written literature that isn't condescending. Klara is one of the few books that gave me the desire to dnf. It's what prevented me from going on to The Buried Giant, and that was the last of his I had to read.
@bookjack
@bookjack 9 ай бұрын
Will not be ascending to my TBR. Thank you 🙏
@MotiviqueStudio
@MotiviqueStudio 9 ай бұрын
@@bookjack I just finished The Torrents of Spring by Hemingway. That I recommend if you haven't read it. 90 pages and completely bonkers. Look up a lit guide or a lot might go missed, but it's pretty odd by itself.
@Conan_The_Librarian
@Conan_The_Librarian 9 ай бұрын
Should never burn books.... someone else thought burning books was a good idea... didn't turn out very good for him..
@bookjack
@bookjack 8 ай бұрын
True enough
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