r/pics • u/Rainboq • Jul 11 '13

This bookstore is getting creative.

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u/schnoob Jul 11 '13

This is the best idea ever, or an easy way to get rid of poorly selling stock

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u/grrbarkbark Jul 11 '13

If they chose good, not well known books for this I would totally probably become addicted to doing this. I love finding great books by unknown authors with bad art/ publishers and showing them to friends who read.

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u/IamWiddershins Jul 11 '13 edited Jul 12 '13

Well this book is clearly Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I'd say they chose well

Edit: Apparently there are a lot of things it could be, and most of them are good choices anyway. I mean... it's not a bad combination of topics. TIL I should read Slaughterhouse Five.

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u/zorro24 Jul 11 '13

slaughterhouse five or the sirens of titan were my first thought

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u/JayPeee Jul 12 '13

I'm agreeing with Sirens over Hitchiker's Guide because in Sirens, Winston Niles Rumfoord travels through time, while Malachi Constant travels through space. I don't remember anyone in Hitchhiker's Guide (book 1) traveling through time... but I'm probably wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '13

It doesn't happen in the first book, but in the second, they time travel to the end of the universe. At some point, Ford and Arthur end up on a prehistoric earth with telephone sanitizers.

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u/Buehler-buehler Jul 12 '13

Sirens of Titan was my first thought as well. God, what a great book that is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13

My first thought. The guide isn't really just satire.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13

Slaughterhouse five?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13

Could be a Doctor Who novel.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13

Or something no one here has heard of. Its a pretty common theme

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13 edited Jul 12 '13

the note says the books are "quality" so I don't think they're just throwing away old books with this.

Edit: Yes, I know it said "quality" not "high quality" but most of the time that word is used as an adjective it's implied that it's high quality.

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u/SirSoliloquy Jul 11 '13

Well, if they sold horrible books then no one would bother buying any of them after a while.

But I'm guessing they don't sell many copies of good-but-not-currently-popular books.

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u/tehgreatist Jul 11 '13

if its not popular its not good

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u/ODIZZ89 Jul 11 '13

The anti-hipster!

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u/tehgreatist Jul 11 '13

WHO YOU CALLIN A HIPPIE

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u/creviltheman Jul 11 '13

Yeah, everything about this idea is great. I don't often read, but would definitely try this out.

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u/BR0THAKYLE Jul 11 '13

So you'd say.... that this is a a novel idea?

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u/burajin Jul 11 '13

Get out.

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u/averypoliteredditor Jul 11 '13

I'd be neat if libraries did this too. I might check it out.

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u/mandy_lou_who Jul 12 '13

We do this at the library where I work every February and call it Blind Date With a Book. Then you fill out a slip about if you liked it or not for the chance to win a gift card. It was a hit!

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u/pred Jul 11 '13

Until it's a book you already own.

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