How it started... *waves* Pic is for the algo. This is an announcement thread. 1) THANK YOU to everyone who's ordered from us while we're closed! It's helped us stay afloat so I can finish store updates. 1/?

15% of all our sales (online and in-store) this weekend Jan 17th and 18th will go to mutual aid to directly support people who have been harmed by I.C.E. in Minneapolis and here in Madison. We are open Sat 10-6 and Sun 11-6.

I've never been diagnosed w/A(u)DHD but this is how I'm dealing w/the bookstore overhaul rn. There's SO MUCH to do & I'm SO SICK that I'm doing ~whatever I can handle~ in the moment and that's IT. Next week's Me will still be overwhelmed but at least they won't have to do *that thing*

They hate us so much but we love each other more

Not once, and I never will.

WE HAVE A REOPENING DATE! More info coming soon. In the meantime, I'd better get back to it...

After a tip from a colleague, I did my own research and discovered that Peter Pauper Press uses AI-generated art in several (if not dozens) of their products. The use of AI is not disclosed in any of their product listings.

this job is a trip

No pictures yet--I'm BURIED under boxes right now. But: WOW our latest haul is WILD. We've received BUNCHES of books on surrealism; mysticism; field guides; Buddhism; folklore; smol books (not quite minis, but smol), plus some authors our customers love like LeGuin, Marquez, Hurston, & MANY more --

HEY I'll be offline 'til 1/2. In the meantime, I FINALLY signed up for StoryGraph. It'll take a LONG time to add all the books I've read (if I can even remember them all). My challenge: by 2027, add everything I've read since opening the store + earlier reads that I still love. tinyurl.com/yst3y5uf

Good morning, all! I slept a BUNCH & spent some very nice time with my family. Now it's back to work!* My FIRST task is to finish shipping last week's orders. Then I'll start on this list. I'm excited to get to it! Watch this space for updates. *with lots of rest breaks planned, for once 😅

SO, when I was 30 I could push through 6 weeks of 8-to-18-hour days with no breaks, no problem! Especially if I knew a solid break was coming at the end of that. Today my body shook me like a rag doll & reminded me I am fifty-six whole-ass years old, and that is no longer A Thing In My Wheelhouse.

Nailed it 😅

I remember when this article came out! ...it was approximately 10 minutes before I began looking for a new shipping products supplier.

I just realized I've only ever put ONE selfie on this account. Most of you have no idea what I even look like! Hello to all the book lovers out there, from #Detroit 👋🏼

This is why we do not and will never carry any JKR or Galbraith books at our store. We don't even put them on our free table. Any of her books that we receive as donations are destroyed, right alongside Nazi apologia and evangelical tracts 👍🏼

Our holiday Book Flood is back! Inspired by the Icelandic Jólabókaflóðið, this is our annual Xmas sale. This year, we're doing 15% off all books & 10% off everything else, PLUS a free blind date book with each purchase of at least $20.

can't stop won't stop

Our website is down 😭 ...I'm working with the host to resolve this ASAP. Updates coming soon

The last day to order books from our website & get them in time for Christmas is SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 (Ground Advantage) or TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 (Priority Mail). you should check out our website we have some pretty good books there detroitusedbooks.com

Eartha Kitt's cover of Santa Baby is the best one. sorry, I don't make the rules www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTCF...

Good morning, all 🌞 Lily wants to know if it's snack time yet

WHEEL OF TIME, BAYBEE We have 10 out of the first 12 books. Conditions range from G to VG, and prices range from $3.50-$4.50. We're here at the store until 9 PM tonight. Hope to see you!

Last reskeet: NOT an affiliate link -- their stuff just looks cool and I like their business model 👍🏼

✨ S S P S ✨

Good morning, all 👋🏼 It's Sick Stuff Saturday, and YES we have some SICK new arrivals on the shelves today. First up: this is the first time we've ever received any of the Andrew Lang fairy books! We also got this amazing little book on African folklore + MANY more fairy & folktale titles.

Little Ruby Roo at the vet on Tuesday. It's hard to see in this pic, but I wanted to know why she has SUCH a round-y belly. $500 to find out it's poop 🤣😭

When you ran out of those little Post-It placeholder tab thingies two books ago

Good morning, all 🌞 It's What's New Wednesday! Here's our first photoset, showing off some new arrivals...everything from young adult series & performer memoirs to fantasy shorts & Stephen King. We have hundreds of new-to-us titles going on the shelf this week...more pics coming later today!

(from my personal account) LET'S DO IT

Good morning, all It's BUSY SEASON. Today, I'm up early assembling junk journal/collage packs for the return of Broken Books 🙂 I've collected materials for these for YEARS. It's nice to finally sit down & put together a bunch. The pictured packets + dozens more will be on our shelves this weekend

Bump!

I like Winnie-the-Pooh and all, but YIKES this looks like Milne's about to shift into Pennywise

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Hello, all! Here's what's happening at the bookstore this weekend: Thursday: CLOSED Friday: SHORT HOURS (2-6) Saturday: EXTENDED HOURS (1-9), a cat food drive, and some great deals. Get up to $15 off with donations of cat food & plastic bags! I am HUSTLING to get ready 🐱 Hope to see you!

Happy birthday to Charles M. Schulz! I still love so many of the classic Peanuts strips ❤️

Our new arrivals are in! ...who ordered the cat?

Hello, all. I hope each of you is having as lovely a morning as this perfect little man

ok first of all how dare you

!!! UPDATE!!! This has been a DAY and we have to push this back to 2 PM. I'm so sorry for the delay. We'll see you soon!

Reminder: this is TOMORROW. We'll be open from 1-9 PM, and the Swap will be held from 1-6 PM. Hope to see you 🎉

UPDATE to our hours this week! To finish prepping the store for our ornament swap, we will be CLOSED tomorrow & Friday. BUT we'll be open an extra hour on Saturday! And we'll be back to our regular hours next week 🙂 Hope to see you!

Bookshop.org is down & not available for shopping right now. CF rolled out the first part of the fix from their London servers about half an hour ago but it'll take hours for everything to come back up. CF is having a frantic day, but the rest of us* can sit back & wait for the fixes

Heads up, crafters! Coming to our website and to the shop floor this weekend: NEW collage and ephemera packs from Broken Books! We rescue & package eye-catching illustrations, signature sheets, + other pages from books that're falling apart into one-of-a-kind themed packets for creatives... 1/2

Teen books alert 🎉 We received several dozen new-to-us teen & YA books in VG or better (!) condition this week. We were also able to restock a few titles that always sell out quickly for us. I'll be adding some of these to the website over the next few days: detroitusedbooks.com

Don't mind us, just getting some of our Random Stuff shelves ready for the holidays 👍🏼

It's always fun when books written by someone I know IRL show up at the store (hi, Helen!) ❤️

Good evening, all. All illustrators have A Thing they like to do. The Thing will show up in their work over & over again. Allow me to present children's book author & illustrator David McPhail: