NP - books, thanks Listers

[Dave Monroe]

I miss my nigh unto monthly trips by Amtrak or Greyhound then CTA to the
Seminary Co-Op (which may actually have moved since I was last there,
perhaps last decade if not last century/millenium). I'd try to go the 1st
of the month, when the Powells along the way from the express bus (stop
just after The Museum of Science and Industry, having boarded across from
the Museum f the Art Insitute) gave 20% off to anyone wearing one of their
t-shirts (I ran through several) or hats, or carrying one f their tote
bags.  I'd buy way too much @ either shop to carry, so I'd have everything
shipped to me @ work (whch I haven't had in 4 1/2 years now, though I have
visited the Lincoln Ave Powells when visiting friends who live or attnding
events/spinning nearby, almost as good, certainly easier to navigate, you
gotta be where people buy good books to get 'em used), plus I'd ave ( and
still have) my Co-Op membership (I think it was 10% off regularly, 20%
Memorial Day weekend then, plus I had a $300 or somesuch account I abused
regularly, but ...), AND save myself the 9% (in some places now, 10%)
Illinois/Cook County/Chicago saes taxes, getting dozens/pounds of books
dropped right where i'd (often as not) receive them for what used to be at
least ca. five bucks UPS (working @ an edumacational institution, for which
I think Powells assumed I was a buyer or researcher or somesuch, given
sheer quantity/quality). Of COURSE  I paid the (then) 5% (now 6-ish? STILL
paying for our "new" baseball stadium, which I only FINALLY got to when I
inherited my brother's McCartney tickets last spring) WI sales tax here
instead (no, really ...).

I haven't travelled much, much less abroad, but the Co-Op is certainly the
best new book bookstore I've ever been in, I'm guessing it's up there,
among academically oriented shops, at very least.

Meanwhile, I simply didn't understand the big deal about City Lights in SF,
but I'm no great poetry, much less Beat, reader, so ...

On Sunday, September 21, 2014, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>  Thanks for the tips on where to buy books, I'll take those up and see
what I get. I'm not looking for free S&H, just don't want rapacious fees.
>   When I'm state-side I try to stock up. The Seminary bookstore in Chi is
da goods!
>
>   If I lived in NY I would go to a library like Alice. Man I love US
libraries, how they let you roam the stacks and except for special
collections you just grab books at random and start reading. Generally not
the case from what little I have seen here in Europe.
>
>    Bubba Lee O'Feil
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