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Short story: An old man who changed an uncouth man, by not reacting angrily, but by reacting patiently

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 18 Jun 23

An old man once run a second-hand bookshop. One day, another much younger man came into his shop, took a book off of one of the shelves, and tore it to pieces, in front of the old man. "This is what I think of business...

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Short story: When is a secondhand bookshop ever a library? Here it was!

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 21 Apr 20

There was a man who owned a secondhand bookshop, and he had several staff working for him too. He had a problem with a member of staff, who used to "pinch" books from the shelves, and take them home with him to read, but...

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Short Story: Coincidence, or synchronicity. Is there a difference?

emptychair @innertalks (23742) • Australia 9 Jun 19

John's life had been very painful for him since his mother had died about 6 months earlier, before. He just could not get over her death. It had been a terrible death to get over, and he seemed to be fastened to it, thinking...

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In days of yore - Campbell Town, Tasmania

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Aug 18

When we were in Tasmania, recently we came across these great road installations in the area of Campbell Town. I had to take the photos from the car as we drove by so there wasn’t time for niceties such as zooming up or focussing...

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Good morning, dear lotters.

marguicha @marguicha (230349) • Chile 14 Nov 16

The sun is shining brightly here. I am so very happy! I will take a shower after breakfast and go to a mall where the supermarket is. I hope I don´t have too much to buy there as I spent too much on my trip to San Fernando. But I...

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Diary Saturday 11th June 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Jun 16

My mum’s 76th birthday today and though she is very ill and effectively housebound she liked her card and present that I got for her, a copy of the Sherlock Holmes movie, Mr Holmes. I spent most of the day online before heading...

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I Bought The Book

jaishankar @else34 (13515) • New Delhi, India 2 Apr 16

Way back home from my workplace half an hour ago,I happened to pass from in front of my friend's bookshop.He called out to me,'Hey,Jai !' I stopped my bike and turned to him. 'I have something for you.Would you like to see it?'...

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Who Would Buy An Encyclopedia On Spells - Apart From The Obvious Of Course

Janey1966 @Janey1966 (24170) • Carlisle, England 13 Aug 15

I have always loved bookshops and now have 'a thing' about seeking out colouring books in proper shops rather than online. The main reason for this is to check out the quality of the paper as it does vary from book to book. The...

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free eBooks anyone?

kawaiirinchan @kawaiirinchan (22) 4 Nov 09

I have been searching high and low for free ebooks download. I am an avid reader and don't have the space at home and time to buy a paperback copy. I am wondering if you know if you see websites that provide free downloads for...

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Christian quotations

mcrowl @mcrowl (1050) • New Zealand 30 Oct 09

I like keeping a record of interesting quotes, and before the Internet was the big thing, I used to do this in old notebooks. When I ran a Christian bookshop, I would spend some time each day writing out an extract from one of the...

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Ever visited the MV Doulos?

vianneyanzu @vianneyanzu (908) • Philippines 29 Mar 09

My sisters and I, together with our mother and our nanny went today to visit the MV Doulos "The World's biggest floating bookshop". It's also the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship. In fact, it's just two years...

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Anyone visited the MV Doulos at Cebu?

mattwilkie @mattwilkie (278) 15 Jan 09

I went there today and was a bit surprised that about 50% of the books revolve round religion. I was hoping to pickup some computer and photography book. Has anyone found any good books on board?

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How To Start A Bookshop Business?

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 4 Nov 08

Hi friends I want to know the requisition for starting a bookshop? Do you think there's high profit in this business? Thanks for responding.

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Why do you like to read in the first place?

laraluey @laraluey (14) • Singapore 10 May 08

Since we're all into reading here, I was just wondering, what keeps us reading? Especially when it seems so much easier these days to just turn on the TV or plug into your MP3 player, or just surf around on the internet. You'd...

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