http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ My days in the used book trade. I own a used bookshop in Durham, North Carolina. en-us richardevanslee@nc.rr.com Copyright 2006 2006-06-03T06:46:48-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/bookscanned.php Nielsen service tallies retail sales from chains like Barnes & Noble and Borders, from Amazon.com, and from stores like Costco. 10261@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2006-06-03T06:46:48-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/cheesecake_bookends.php Two pretty pin-up girls as a set of bookends. 9032@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2005-11-15T13:53:49-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/gay_rednecks_true_or_fal.php Homophobic email arrives at work from a muscle dude on AOL. 8716@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2005-08-24T11:22:53-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/back_to_bookselling_blogg.php For the last several months I was too miserable to update my weblog. 8114@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2005-03-13T07:45:50-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/halfnaked_librarian.php Low caste Indian librarian Achal Singh not allowed full employment status 7793@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-10-12T13:07:27-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/she_seems_to_be_enjoying_.php Vintage pin-up girl reading a book. 7136@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-06-05T17:52:58-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/a_thought_crossed_his_min.php Drawing of a library worker shelving a book during World War Two 7042@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-05-19T11:01:36-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/oh_those_shameless_young.php A couple of vintage paperback covers with librarians as the theme 6980@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-05-08T16:24:55-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/repetitive_stress_injurie.php Hard to catalog books when you have RSI or carpal tunnel syndrome 6889@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-04-28T16:21:12-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/barnes_and_noble_vs_artl.php Kristian Burford's fiberblass sculpture on Artlink's cover upsets Barnes and Noble, worthless censors 6597@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-04-01T15:26:26-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/sorry_i_still_own_my_boo.php Poor foolish man in Durham reads my website and thinks I no longer own my used bookshop 6559@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-29T17:23:35-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/packages_to_the_merely_da.php Thoughts that pass through my mind as I type address labels and pack used books that I've sold 6480@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-22T16:41:52-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/youll_bill_my_telephone_.php Telemarketing scam aimed at small businesses. The company says they'll bill your telephone account if you don't cancel. 6451@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-20T17:35:17-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/43rd_street_librarians.php Photograph of librarians purported to work in New York City's 42nd Street area 6433@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-18T15:21:21-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/nigerian_comic_book_scam.php New Nigerian scam: asking for wholesale lots of comic books 6340@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-08T15:55:10-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/number_50000_is_hermeneu.php Cataloged book number fifty-thousand was a title on hermeneutics (they theory of Bible interpretation) 6309@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-06T17:39:20-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/hey_anirvan_thanks.php Kind words from Anirvan who runs Bookfinder, used book search website 6297@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-05T15:22:43-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/gay_sex_is_like_heroin.php American gays find themself digusted by their own country, hated and despised outsiders 6267@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-03-02T16:23:01-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/visits_from_folks_i_like.php One great pleasure of owning a used bookshop are the friends I've made and the people I talk to 6185@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-02-22T19:32:49-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/die_popup_message_die.php My used bookshop depends on our HP LaserJet 1000 but I'll never buy another HP laser printer again 6100@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-02-13T16:32:44-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/hell_up_to_date.php Book cover of early cartoons featuring people in Hell 5971@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-01-29T10:15:32-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/public_library_den_of_sin.php Man complains about sexual health books in public library 5853@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2004-01-18T04:54:43-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/new_years_day_2004.php Books Do Furnish A Room of Durham NC has a New Year's Day Sale every year 5719@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-31T08:38:52-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/comfortable_read.php Photo of woman reading a book 5711@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-30T23:26:14-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/a_queer_run_business.php Every now & then we sell something because someone has read my weblog 5706@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-30T12:28:45-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/adventures_in_money_makin.php Old pulp, Wizard - adventures in making money 5656@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-25T06:32:03-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/my_christmas_ended_today.php Weak Christmas sales at my used bookshop 5634@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-22T16:42:41-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/weblogs_and_book_publishi.php Your weblog gets you a publisher but not an audience and you never get published again. Remaindered books 5606@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-20T20:16:48-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/the_customer_is_often_wro.php Customers are often stupid, rude, nasty, mean, selfish - to hell with them, fuck the bastards. 5521@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-13T17:58:55-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/library_cheesecake.php Pretty pin-up woman reading a book, cheesecake in a library 5475@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-10T05:18:36-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/how_to_read_a_book.php Nude girl reading a book 5474@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-10T04:56:53-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/library_rejects_images_of.php Librarians refuse to display images of Crucifixion, Jesus carrying the cross and the Nativity 5411@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-12-04T07:45:17-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/best_buyss_local_phone_n.php Best Buy routes local calls to a remote customer service center 5189@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-11-18T09:18:53-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/weblog_quoting_and_copyri.php How much can you quote from a newspaper article in your blog? 5042@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-11-05T12:40:33-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/if_you_google_for_books_d.php Google leads you from Books Do Furnish A Room to Pansexual Sodomite's weblog 4932@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-10-26T20:36:12-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/sex_ed_not_for_kids_in_.php Sex education books mentioning homosexuality moved from children's section at Fort Bend County Libraries 4872@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-10-22T08:50:58-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/category_rss_feeds_added.php Books Do Furnish A Room blog adds RSS category excerpt pages 4832@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-10-19T08:37:01-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/parent_challenges_childre.php Censorship Judy Blume's Denise too serious for children 4786@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-10-14T08:33:40-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/pickup_truck_winos.php Evicting the drunkards living in Books Do Furnish A Room's parking lot. 4714@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-10-06T14:33:03-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/my_home_town_library.php Savannah Georgia's public library system when I lived there. 4634@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-23T18:23:53-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/im_still_not_a_librarian.php 4631@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-23T15:30:45-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/destroying_homophobic_boo.php Books by homophobes, including those who hide behind the word Family, I throw in the trash or tear into shreds. 4625@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-22T18:50:32-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/banned_books_week_2003.php Banned Books Week 2003 4603@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-21T07:44:46-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/buying_selling_postmode.php Buying postmodern academic books from Ross Prinzo. 4532@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-15T15:54:23-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/demented_customer.php I had to eject a possibly homeless, crazy man from my shop. 4512@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-14T07:23:33-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/live_journal_rss_feed.php Weblog RSS feed available on Live Journal 4475@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-11T13:56:22-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/my_schedule.php When I'm at the bookshop. 4469@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-11T09:41:16-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/a_weblog_called_books_do_.php How Books Do Furnish A Room became the weblog's name. 4434@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-07T19:07:34-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/selling_books_do_furnish_.php We sold a copy of Books Do Furnish A Room today. 4430@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-09-07T18:17:24-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/why_weblog.php Why I have a personal weblog. 4359@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-08-30T18:21:04-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/debbie_drakes_easy_way_t.php Debbie Drake was an early television fitness personality. 4354@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-08-30T09:25:28-05:00 http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/richard_evans_lee/books_for_decorating_and_.php Faux books for illiterate pests 4187@http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/ Richard Evans Lee 2003-07-27T08:58:39-05:00