{"id":6499,"date":"2022-12-01T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2022-12-01T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:13:13","slug":"once-upon-a-tome-by-oliver-darkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/once-upon-a-tome-by-oliver-darkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Like many people, I was attracted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59785573-once-upon-a-tome\">Once Upon a Tome<\/a> by Oliver Darkshire through the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotherans\">Sotheran\u2019s<\/a> twitter account. I\u2019m a former (retail, not rare) bookseller, though, so even if I hadn\u2019t found it through the tweets, I suspect it would\u2019ve found me. <br \/><br \/>Selling retail books is not the same as selling rare books, and selling retail books before the internet was a thing (as I did) is certainly not the same as selling anything today. Still, I recognized the various kinds of customers Darkshire describes pretty much instantly, as well as what it was like trying to prevent a bookstore from turning into a death trap of obstacles and oddities. <br \/><br \/>(The best bookstores are death traps, but manageable so.) <br \/><br \/>Darkshire\u2019s descriptions and explanations are both well-crafted imagery and tightly-written, two things as a writer I struggle to achieve simultaneously as he does. It made me simultaneously miss the book selling trade and grateful that I got out when I did. <br \/><br \/>Definitely recommended for fellow booksellers, and fellow book lovers. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, I was attracted to Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire through the Sotheran\u2019s twitter account. I\u2019m a former (retail, not rare) bookseller, though, so even if I hadn\u2019t found it through the tweets, I suspect it would\u2019ve found me. Selling retail books is not the same as selling rare books, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/once-upon-a-tome-by-oliver-darkshire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[207,60,205,206],"class_list":["post-6499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-bookselling","tag-nonfiction","tag-oliver-darkshire","tag-once-upon-a-tome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-1GP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}