FD was out shopping yesterday (everything everywhere seemed to be on massive sale! \u00a0a new skirt, two tops, underwear and all for under $100.00!) and stopped into a Barnes and Noble to see if there were any books of Acrostic puzzles — of course I’d rather buy these through my local independent, but it only carries the NYTimes crossword series. \u00a0I do the NYTimes crossword every day, and the acrostics that they publish every other week, and I don’t want to do them over again, so I’m not a fan of the NYT series. \u00a0Anyway, although there are shelves of Suduko and even wordfind books at the B&N, as well as lots of crossword books (I will sometimes buy the collections labeled hardest from other publishers) almost no one carries acrostic (or doublcrostic, there are various names) puzzles, but sometimes one can find one or two copies at the larger B&N outlets (we don’t have a Borders nearby but they do have a few online).<\/p>\n
Anyway, there was exactly ONE acrostic collection yesterday at the B&N, and it wasn’t from the NYTimes, so I bought it, even though I’m not sure if I didn’t do these back in the late 1990s (when it seems to have been first published).<\/p>\n
But what really struck me was that despite the fact that it was a Wednesday morning, there were other shoppers and they were shopping — or at least carrying books around in the store. \u00a0I do think that there’s a too-easy assumption or usage in a lot of (especially on-line) discussions of reading\/publishing that “everyone” is doing all their book buying on line, and\/or switching to screen readers. \u00a0And, it’s jut not going to be true, at least for awhile yet, and if there wasn’t this constant reiteration of the “everybody’s doing it” meme, maybe buying and reading “real” books would continue to be a mass, not a niche, activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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