I have been idly contemplating my semi-retirement for a couple of years now. What should I do? What shall I do? To be completely realistic I shall have to work for a while. I intend to take early retirement and keep working part time. Then I have been mulling opening a used book store of some kind. The one in Coquille (Book Nook) closed and there are a couple spaces in empty stores that could be opened as such. I am also contemplating the actual name of the store. I was having a conversation with a store owner of the book shop in Bandon and I asked him how he got started. He said he had ten thousand books sitting in his garage at home so...
GREAT NAME! TEN THOUSAND BOOKS! Um, I then mentally tallied up the number of books I have on hand....sigh...need another 9500 books.
I am also taking donations of the ubiquitous Reader's Digest condensed books. What!? Are you out of your mind!? Um, well no actually. I intend to use them a building material, stack them up, drill a hole through them, thread a sturdy rod through them and allow for space for a board for shelving to be slipped in at the appropriate spaces. I think it will look colorful.
I have also contemplated restricting my books to a Romance, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Biographies, oh hell, I'll sell them all. I may have trouble selling my favorites.
I think I will need to have comfortable chairs, foot stools scattered about with good lighting, and knitted lap robes or quilts to ward off the chill.
A side line would be selling books on line. A cuppa coffee and cookies would be good too, however, zoning and planning may not permit such usage.
Must go day dream.
4 comments:
I like your recycling idea for the Readers Digest books. Save a little space for an occasional visit from your friendly traveling musician.
No problem, we have two beds down stairs, park across the street please. R
do you want some books? i can get lots.
I will take a photo of the table at the bookstore near our house...it's cool. You will like.
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