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The Diary of a Bookseller de Shaun Bythell
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The Diary of a Bookseller (edição: 2018)

de Shaun Bythell (Autor)

Séries: Bookseller (1)

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"The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore--and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there"--
Membro:BobVTReader
Título:The Diary of a Bookseller
Autores:Shaun Bythell (Autor)
Informação:Melville House (2018), Edition: Reprint, 320 pages
Coleções:Books read 2021
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The Diary of a Bookseller de Shaun Bythell

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Una historia que una vez la empiezas no quieres dejar de leerla, pero aún así un poco depresivo leerlo ( )
  kiwi452 | Mar 14, 2024 |
Non mi sarei mai aspettata di abbandonare un libro che parla di librerie e libri, eppure… ( )
  Anshin | Feb 3, 2024 |
Funny, melancholy, snarky. For everyone who loves books and bookshops. Also a hard look into the realities of bookselling in the age of Amazon. ( )
  fmclellan | Jan 23, 2024 |
Если вы регулярно читаете эту колонку про книги, то наверняка задумывались если не о том, чтобы стать книготорговцем, то хотя бы о том, каково это работать в книжном. Шон Байтелл, владелец второго по величине в Шотландии букинистического магазина, как раз написал о своем опыте в формате дневника. Уигтаун, где он расположен, непростой городок: в нем около тысячи жителей, на которых приходится почти десять книжных магазинов. Не смотря на размеры, Уигтаун известен во всем Соединенном Королевстве как «Город книг». Его ежегодный литературный фестиваль на порядок увеличивает население.

В поисках подержанных книг Шон регулярно колесит по северу Великобритании, оценивая оказавшиеся ненужными собрания книг, часто попадая при этом в разные трагикомические ситуации. Вообще, работа букиниста на редкость гармонично сочетает в себе интеллектуальное и материальное. По подсчетам Шона за год он поднимает пятнадцать тонн книг, которые в среднем еще трижды приходится перетаскивать. Да, вы можете перепоручить черновую работу помощникам, но, похоже, персонал, работающий в лавках букиниста, тоже особенный. Его основная работница креационистка, регулярно ставящая «Происхождение видов» в раздел художественной литературы. Байтелл отвечает перемещением Библии в раздел «Романы». «Одиссею» помощница логично помещает в раздел рыбной ловли, ибо понятно же, чем питались скитальцы на корабле.

Работа с живыми покупателями дает многочисленные поводы для занесения цитат в дневник. Магазин навещают со всей страны, непрерывно звонят с заказами по телефону, а еще Шон работает с Amazon’ом. Некоторые приносят книги о себе. Так, одна семидесятилетняя дама принесла сумку эротических альбомов 1960х, которую он купил. Уходя, старушка заинтриговала: «Угадайте, кто из моделей – я». Вообще, судя по книге, покупатели бывают хорошими, плохими и любителями железных дорог. Литература о поездах – самый ходовой товар магазина, о чем в начале бизнеса Байтелл абсолютно не догадывался. Сюрпризов действительно много: «Майн кампф» гарантированно уходит за месяц, а некоторые покупатели возмущаются, что книги стоят дороже напечатанных на них старых цен. Вот вам адаптированный совет от Шона: будут просить отдать за советскую цену, просите оплаты валютой СССР.

Если по прочтению у вас сформируется четкое понимание того, хотите ли вы в этот бизнес, прошу, возьмите паузу. Хотя бы до сентября, когда выходит продолжение «Исповедь книготорговца».
  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
In The Diary of a Bookseller, author Shaun Bythell shares a year in his life as a bookseller through a series of journal entries written between 2014-15. Since 2001, Shaun Bythell owns and operates 'The Bookshop' in Wigtown , the Book Town of Galloway. His store is the largest second-hand bookstore in Scotland. His daily life consists of time in his shop with his part-time employees including students from nearby universities, the eccentric Nicky whose antics will have you in splits and, of course, the shop cat, Captain. He shares his experiences in estate sales and valuations and organizing local book festivals and also shares anecdotes from his experiences with the variety of customers who visit his shop both his regulars and tourists- browsers, buyers and sellers. He posts some of the more entertaining interactions on his Facebook page along with pictures and videos of his store. Some of the encounters are laugh-out-loud funny. He is not too fond of ebooks and once he expressed his distaste towards Kindles by shooting through a damaged Kindle and mounting it on a wall in his shop- which he claims is one of the most popular displays in his shop (the video of which I promptly looked up!)

The author sheds a light on both the appealing and the mundane aspects of the profession of bookselling. He charts his sales, acquisitions and even mentions how much money is left in the till at the close of that particular day. Besides direct sales, the shop also sells through Amazon and AbeBooks. The author also discusses the challenges faced in selling books from brick-and-mortar stores in the era of Amazon, Waterstones and the popularity of ebooks over physical books.

I enjoy fictional stories set in bookstores and libraries. Therefore when I found out about this memoir that gives us a true picture of life as a bookseller and the different aspects of the business, I was genuinely interested. I enjoyed the extracts from George Orwell’s “Bookshop Memories” at the beginning of each chapter and the ensuing discussion on Orwell’s experiences working part-time in a bookstore (1934-36) and the author’s perspective on the profession in the modern-day. I found myself looking up the shop’s Facebook page and enjoyed the pictures of the shop and Captain. Overall, this is a slow-paced, light and entertaining memoir that I thoroughly enjoyed and I look forward to reading the follow-up books in his series. ( )
  srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 |
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Bythell is often as charmingly unlikeable as his customers, ridiculing them in the book and online. It’s not clear that he’s actually helpful. He routinely receives complaints about unfulfilled or switched book shipments. His employees appear mostly incompetent...

The Diary of a Bookseller doesn’t seem like it should work. Life at The Book Shop is boring. On a typical day Bythell might sell £200 worth of books, once as little as £5. But there is a soothing monotony to the rhythm of his days. Bythell somehow creates a sense of urgency in the nothingness, and readers may feel that if they skip even one day, they’ll miss some winningly cutting remark.
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