By: dobbs
Not sure if he still does it or if it was a one off thing but Monkey's Paw once sent out an email with a complete list of titles in inventory and then had a contest fro who could create the best story...
View ArticleBy: peagood
Now I am always going to be sad that someone got the Lawrence Welk biographybefore I could get there. I'd read the heck out of that book, and ordering it from a library or choosing to buy it on Amazon...
View ArticleBy: bongo_x
As to the first sentence, I was spoiled by Bookman's. Actually, as a young man in Tucson in the 80's there were several good sized used book stores that were open until midnight. I thought it was...
View ArticleBy: Mike Smith
Rare and odd books. The second part's important. Just because something was once printed doesn't mean it's still worth reading, and should exist forever as reading material. Books can just be loved as...
View ArticleBy: Gin and Comics
Well, it is my understanding that Monkey's Paw is in large part a rare bookstore. I thought rare books weren't generally read.
View ArticleBy: Katjusa Roquette
We just have a book-case full of random books for free where I live. I need to go put more books in it.
View ArticleBy: chapps
I lived at a co-op once that did something not dissimilar. We bought an old single brand soft drink machine and stocked it with with an array of mystery beers. You pays your money and you takes your...
View ArticleBy: threeants
Also I was genuinely shocked to see a bookstore owner say this pretty true thing, in the linked interview: This really isn't a store for readers. The traditional purpose of a bookstore is as a place to...
View ArticleBy: threeants
I don't care that this is twee as shit because I would spend ALL MY TWO DOLLARSES ON IT. There is a machine in some bookstore in Inman Square, Cambridge, that lets you put whatever you have into one of...
View ArticleBy: hurdy gurdy girl
Does anyone else think the machine looks sort of like a pack of cigarettes? I thought so too. I quite like the way it looks. In the longer Quill and Quire article (linked at the bottom of the Tucson...
View ArticleBy: oulipian
I bet someone could make a killing by making an iOS app where you pay 99 cents and get a random app.
View ArticleBy: Mike Smith
Somehow, I knew this would be in Toronto. And of course it's in the The Monkey's Paw, already a great little curio itself. (Where else could I have discovered Maledicta, the International Journal of...
View ArticleBy: jim in austin
I lived at a co-op once that did something not dissimilar. We bought an old single brand soft drink machine and stocked it with with an array of mystery beers. You pays your money and you takes your...
View ArticleBy: PipRuss
Really cool concept. Does anyone else think the machine looks sort of like a pack of cigarettes?
View ArticleBy: found missing
With my luck I'd get All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
View ArticleBy: Mblue
Automatic dealer for the word addicts. After stepping over a frothing ad hominem, I expect a winning roll of luck.
View ArticleBy: Ad hominem
I would probably spend all the cash in my pocket. End up with 15 copies of Future Shock and a copy of Chicken Soup for The Soul.
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