Books Do Furnish A Room's Richard Evans Lee Articles

BookScanned

Nielsen service tallies retail sales from chains like Barnes & Noble and Borders, from Amazon.com, and from stores like Costco.

Cheesecake Bookends

Two pretty pin-up girls as a set of bookends.

GAY REDNECKS: True or False?

Homophobic email arrives at work from a muscle dude on AOL.

Back to bookselling blogging

For the last several months I was too miserable to update my weblog.

Half-naked librarian

Low caste Indian librarian Achal Singh not allowed full employment status

She seems to be enjoying her book

Vintage pin-up girl reading a book.

A thought crossed his mind ...

Drawing of a library worker shelving a book during World War Two

Oh, those shameless young librarians!

A couple of vintage paperback covers with librarians as the theme

Repetitive stress injuries

Hard to catalog books when you have RSI or carpal tunnel syndrome

Barnes and Noble vs. Artlink

Kristian Burford's fiberblass sculpture on Artlink's cover upsets Barnes and Noble, worthless censors

Sorry, I still own my bookstore

Poor foolish man in Durham reads my website and thinks I no longer own my used bookshop

Packages to the merely darned

Thoughts that pass through my mind as I type address labels and pack used books that I've sold

You'll bill my telephone number?

Telemarketing scam aimed at small businesses. The company says they'll bill your telephone account if you don't cancel.

43rd Street librarians

Photograph of librarians purported to work in New York City's 42nd Street area

Nigerian comic book scam

New Nigerian scam: asking for wholesale lots of comic books

Number 50,000 is hermeneutics

Cataloged book number fifty-thousand was a title on hermeneutics (they theory of Bible interpretation)

Hey, Anirvan, thanks

Kind words from Anirvan who runs Bookfinder, used book search website

Gay sex is like heroin?

American gays find themself digusted by their own country, hated and despised outsiders

Visits from folks I like

One great pleasure of owning a used bookshop are the friends I've made and the people I talk to

Die popup message, die!

My used bookshop depends on our HP LaserJet 1000 but I'll never buy another HP laser printer again

Hell Up To Date

Book cover of early cartoons featuring people in Hell

Public library den of sin

Man complains about sexual health books in public library

New Year's Day 2004

Books Do Furnish A Room of Durham NC has a New Year's Day Sale every year

Comfortable read

Photo of woman reading a book

A queer run business

Every now & then we sell something because someone has read my weblog

Adventures in Money Making

Old pulp, Wizard - adventures in making money

My Christmas ended today

Weak Christmas sales at my used bookshop

Weblogs and book publishing 'deals'

Your weblog gets you a publisher but not an audience and you never get published again. Remaindered books

The customer is often wrong

Customers are often stupid, rude, nasty, mean, selfish - to hell with them, fuck the bastards.

Library cheesecake

Pretty pin-up woman reading a book, cheesecake in a library

How to read a book

Nude girl reading a book

Library rejects images of Crucifixion, Jesus carrying the cross and the Nativity

Librarians refuse to display images of Crucifixion, Jesus carrying the cross and the Nativity

Best Buys's local phone numbers

Best Buy routes local calls to a remote customer service center

Weblog quoting and copyright issues

How much can you quote from a newspaper article in your blog?

If you Google for Books Do Furnish A Room who will you find?

Google leads you from Books Do Furnish A Room to Pansexual Sodomite's weblog

Sex ed. not for kids in Fort Bend Library

Sex education books mentioning homosexuality moved from children's section at Fort Bend County Libraries

Category RSS feeds added

Books Do Furnish A Room blog adds RSS category excerpt pages

Parent challenges children's library book

Censorship Judy Blume's Denise too serious for children

Pickup truck winos

Evicting the drunkards living in Books Do Furnish A Room's parking lot.

My home town library

Savannah Georgia's public library system when I lived there.

I'm still not a librarian: deaccessing books

Destroying homophobic books

Books by homophobes, including those who hide behind the word Family, I throw in the trash or tear into shreds.

Banned Books Week 2003

Banned Books Week 2003

Buying & selling postmodernist books

Buying postmodern academic books from Ross Prinzo.

Demented customer

I had to eject a possibly homeless, crazy man from my shop.

Live Journal RSS Feed

Weblog RSS feed available on Live Journal

My schedule

When I'm at the bookshop.

A weblog called Books Do Furnish A Room

How Books Do Furnish A Room became the weblog's name.

Selling Books Do Furnish A Room

We sold a copy of Books Do Furnish A Room today.

Why weblog?

Why I have a personal weblog.

Debbie Drake's Easy Way to a Perfect Figure and Glowing Health (For All Women - A Perfect Figure in Just Fifteen Minutes)

Debbie Drake was an early television fitness personality.

Books For Decorating And Concealment

Faux books for illiterate pests