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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And as we were leaving Indigo, I saw a book
on the shelf that looked very intriguing to me, and
I said, oh, shoot, Like, had I seen that one,
I would have picked it up, and you know, didn't
bother grabbing it because we had already checked out. So
we were leaving. We were going over to a used
bookstore called Perryton. I had some books to take in,
and as well, I had some credit there, so I thought,
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may as well get more books for free. And as
I was browsing through books there, what did I see
but the book that I had wanted at Indigo. Hey,
I'm less and I'm read. This is not that kind
of book club.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A bookish podcast for we read it, so you don't
have to.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What's up, book friends?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It is just me just rehere this morning on not
that kind of book club, a bookish podcast where reread
it so you don't have to. I guess you're listening
to this at any point in the day, so saying
good morning could be redundant. It might be afternoon, it
might be evening. I'm the kind of person though it
doesn't matter what time it is. I want to tell
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people good morning, because it just sounds so much better
coming out and makes you feel a little warm and fuzzy.
And mornings are for coffee, so I also like that
as well.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Of course you are seeing there's no less today, but
all is good. We are just having a.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Little We're just yeah, she's not here. It's just gonna
be me for today, so no big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And today we are talking all about different types of bookstores.
Let's get right into it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't have anyone to banter with because of course
producer LB is sitting there and doesn't have a microphone
and doesn't necessarily want to be on the show, which
is totally fine.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I am not offended at all. Oh there we go.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
He can get a microphone and he can talk back
to me and give me some banter. But yeah, we're
talking all about bookstores today. As it is in the title,
it is something old, something new, something borrowed, something used.
So we're going to go through all these different lovely
categories talking about different places you can get all of
your books because there are so many. Of course, you
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have your classics, something new bookstores. You know, we have
Indigo chapters, that kind of stuff. In Canada and the States.
Barnes and Noble is huge. Love a good Barnes and Noble.
We have McNally Robinson, all kinds of little bookstores like
indie ones of course, where you can go and get
all of your new books, and they are fantastic. We
love getting ourselves a new book. But you know, not
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everybody has the budget to be going out and getting
brand new books all the time. I myself have probably
I stopped counting the other day once I got to
two hundred, but I will sit down and count through
my entire book library to see how many I have.
But not everybody has the budget to be affording brand
new books all the time. So these are some really fantastic,
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great options of how you can expand your library, expand
your worldview on what you think books are by being
able to go out to different types of places and
getting some books. Because our podcast is all about books
and we just want to get more books into readers' hands.
So LB, where is the last place that you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Bought a book?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Westgate?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Westgate? Okay? How long ago was that? Or two week
or two?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So you did it since the renovation they had? Yes, okay,
so Westgate is a used bookstore. We have here in
the city, and we're going to start with something old
first and we'll cover that. We'll come back to used
in Westgate Books because there's some really cool stories about
what you can do at use bookstores. But when we're
talking about old the things that make me think of
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older books are garage sales, secondhand stores, Facebook, Marketplace, Value
Village that is a big one. All those like used books,
used bookstores, all those old type not old necessarily stores
that you can go to, but thrift stores like that
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are fantastic places to get books. Everybody knows the whole
Value Village deal where you buy four books I don't
think they cost more than six dollars each, you get
your fifth one free. But fun fact, if you also
make a donation of household goods to Value Village, they
give you a coupon for twenty percent off, so you
stack that on top of the buy four books, get
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the fifth one free. You are walking out with a
great deal of books, and they update their selection usually
from what I've seen, about once a week or so.
So it's a great place to go. It's a great
place to browse. You're gonna have to put in time
and put in a shift there it's not like brand
new bookstore where you walk they have tables, they have
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it all sorted nicely for you.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You need to be.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Putting time in to go through look at all these
different titles that they have. And sometimes people will read
a book once, or they don't even read the book
and they just donate it, which is absolutely crazy. But
that's what makes it so fun to go on almost
like a treasure hunt to like value village in different
thrift stores when you're going to look for books.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Same thing with garage sales.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You never know what is going to be at a
garage sale when you are looking for a book.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's just it's a treasure hunt.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's the best way to put something old into an
entire category is thinking about it as going on a
treasure hunt for books. And I personally love doing that.
You definitely have to be in the mood to want
to do it, but it is a great, great thing
to be able.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
To do so something new.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Obviously, we have all our big box stores which I covered,
and I mean those all speak for themselves.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
LB. When's the last time you went to a new bookstore.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I mean I was at McNally a couple days ago.
But I haven't actually bought a new book in quite
a while.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Really, why money? Okay, just like I was saying, like.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Money, it's more expensive toy.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It is, And isn't it just a little bit more
fun to go to some of those thrift stores, go
to some of those old bookstores, find them and just
really dig and you never know what you're going to
get or what you're going to find when you go.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, it's such a fun little treasure hunt.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So something borrowed very important here is our library system.
Something borrowed you can do not only books. At most libraries,
they have audio books, they have games, they have like
tabletop role playing games. The local library here in Saskatoon
actually does a book club of the month where they
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give you a stack of books of whichever one you
want to read, and they set your book club up
up with all of these books. You can go on
waiting lists to get different books. I'm not sure about
other cities, other provinces, other states, but our library here
in Saskatoon does something incredibly special where they don't actually
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charge you late fees anymore. So all they do is
after you've gone through your period of having the book
is they will charge you the full cost of that
book and put it on your account until they decide
that well nothing. You just have to pay the amount
or bring the book back. So if you do bring
the book back overdue, they just waive those charges. But
there are no late fees anymore at the library, which
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I know is the reason a lot of people wouldn't
go to libraries for a very long time is because
their late fees started adding up. They didn't want to
risk getting late fees. You know, you can't always guarantee
that you're going to get your books back in time.
But between having an online app where you can extend
the amount of time that you have a book, as
well as just not having late fees anymore, it's made
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it a lot more accessible for people to use libraries,
to be able to go in and actually just be
able to have books from there. It's fantastic and they're
getting more and more new titles. If you request a
book a lot of the times they'll bring it in
for you. It's a fantastic thing, and I think libraries
are a very underutilized resource here in this world. So
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take some time go visit your local library. A membership
is completely free and I can't speak for other places,
but if you are located in Saskatoon, you don't even
have to pay the late fees.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And that speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean even Blockbuster back in the day had late fees,
and now our library is just no late fees possible.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now for one of my favorite parts of this whole segment,
it is something used. We're talking used bookstores, which are
absolutely incredible. So, Producer Adam, you said that you were Oh,
that was really weird calling you by your real name. Oh,
I didn't like that. I'm sorry, LB, Producer LB. That
sounds so much better coming off the tongue.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So you said you went to Westgate Books. What kind
of book did you get?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Uh, it was a sci fi multiverse sort of thing.
I can't remember the title off the top of Ooh,
is it like a series?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I know, it's just a standalone.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Just a standalone okay. And for a book like that,
what kind of condition was it in?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Good?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I mean, you know, there's a little bit of like
not cracking, but like you know, the spines are sometimes
obviously it's been red, you know, but other than that,
it's a good condition.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And do you mind having a little bit of crying, uh,
a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Bad cracking the spine in when I.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Do it, it's already been warning.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You get a new book and then you open it
for the first time, there's like all that crackling. It hurts.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, fair enough, that's awesome and okay, so for a
book in decent condition, like is it a fairly new title?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Okay, what did you pay? What did you pay for
your book at Westgate?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I want to say it was like ten bucks maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Ooh, that's pretty solid for a book.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I think that's half of what you pay at a
new bookstore.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh my gosh, or even a third, Like books are
expensive these days, so great example, Westgate Books is a
local used bookstore. Most cities are gonna have places like this.
We also have Peryton. But what a lot of these
bookstores do is they operate on a credit system, So
you can take books and they'll go through decide which
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books they like, which books that they don't like, and
from there they will then give you a certain amount
of credit for them, which you can use to apply
to books in the store. And all of a sudden,
you take books in, you get to take some new
books home and you didn't even have to spend a dollar.
It's the coolest, coolest thing. Some of them as well,
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will give you the ability to have a membership. I
know Peryton does it where you pay X number of
dollars per year and then you get, for example, ten
percent off whenever you're going there. So it makes buying
used books even more reasonable. It's just so fantastic all
the different options that we have out there for different
types of book buying. So again it's something old, something new,
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something borrowed, something used. We have all kinds of book
buying options. If you don't want to just go to Amazon,
you don't want to just go to your big box stores,
think of going on Facebook, Marketplace, go on to Poshmark,
which is technically a used clothing site. They also have
books there. You can go to garage sales, go hit
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up your local library and Google and see local bookstores
in your area. It's such a fun thing to go
and be on these little treasure hunts because you honestly
never know what you're going to find. I remember this
past winter very fortunately, my partner gave me a big
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birthday present of spending a bunch of money at Indigo,
so I picked out a bunch of books. He paid
for them all for me, And as we were leave Indigo,
I saw a book on the shelf that looked very
intriguing to me, and I said, oh, shoot, Like had
I seen that one, I would have picked it up,
and you know, didn't bother grabbing it because we had
already checked out. So we were leaving, we were going
(12:14):
over to a used bookstore called Perryton. I had some
books to take in and as well, I had some
credit there, so I thought, may as well get more
books for free. And as I was browsing through books there,
what did I see But the book that I had
wanted at Indigo was there on the used bookstore shelf
and it was so beautiful. There was a little written
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inscription inside from a daughter to her mother, and it
just made me so happy that in that same day
I had this cool little happenstance thing happened where I
ended up with a book that I really wanted in
a way that I didn't plan on getting it. So
when I say that finding books is a treasure hunt,
it really can be. When you get into all the
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things outside of your Big Box store and your Amazon
account to get books, but at this point I'm basically
just rambling all to myself. Thank you so much LB
for hopping on the mic and chit chatting with me.
Of course, we are still reading Book of the Month,
which is Favorite Daughter by Morgan Dick. We're actually gonna
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have her on in the next episode, so if you
have any questions you'd.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Like us to ask her.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
As you can see, I still have about maybe a
third of the book left. It's going really, really well.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit. But if you have
any questions for her, hit us up on Instagram at
not that kind of book club. We would love to
hear from you to ask her things as well. We
have a contest going on where you send in your
stories of you and your siblings. Whether it's heartfelt, it's
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let's stay away from sad, whether it's funny. I'm gonna
tell some funny stories on your show later today with Gary,
but just send us stories about you and your siblings.
Will pick the best ones, we'll read them out, and
we will give away two copies of this book from Morgan.
So other than that, thank you so much for coming
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along again, it's re It's not that kind of book club,
a bookish podcast where we read it so you don't
have to have a good one.