Secondhand Book Enthusiast Gifts

Student to other about shredded paper: 'Some of these used textbooks have really been through the grind.'

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

"I try to write a little bit every day."

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

"There goes our early night."

A Specialty Bookstore Chain that Failed, 'Untitled Books.'

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

Meet the author

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

'Gifted class, indeed. One is gifted in science, but he can't read - one is gifted in reading, but won't even try math...'

"We'd like to publish it, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in less than a month."

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

Learn yourself English.

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

The joy of sects.

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

"Good evening. In today's top story, my book has jumped to Number Three on the best-seller list."

Clara had come a long waw from those readings at the public library.

Bibliomaniac

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress