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Considering that the store has three registers, often runs at least two of the registers during the hours I shop, and the amount of time I spend standing in line - there are quite a few people still buying books. Browsing books at the store only to return home and try to find all the books...

I can't imagine young people want to wear their school uniforms once home from school. I wouldn't want to take my child to church, shopping, the movies, holiday/family gatherings, etc with them wearing their school uniform. I have had jobs that require uniforms and it's a huge pain in the...

I don't disapprove of extended breaks but I sure wish they had a full summer school program or summer long camps or something [iexpensive] so that parents aren't forced to go into debt paying for daycare over the summer break. I wish Christmas and spring breaks were one week rather than two -...

I was part of a very similar discussion on another forum very recently. I still spend a lot of time browsing books in a physical bookstore and the bookstore is always busy and always has people lounging and browsing through books. I don't see physical book stores in any danger of losing...

Parents should just be more involved in what their children do rather than having someone else tell them whether the content of something is too mature for their child. A warning label isn't going to tell me what bad words are used, how much their used, or even the context in which they are...

Older threads have may have valid and useable input from people that are no longer here to share their opinions and knowledge. I don't think it's ever wrong to point out an existing topic, but it might come across better if the person providing the link first shares their views and then offers...

I've been banned from at least 5 forums. :D

I am not occupied. I have been though - that is I have worked. I'm otherwise usually only occupied when I'm busy and I've been four times occupied with little people. Way back, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, I started as the neighborhood babysitter, for a summer I had a job...

My big issue with uniforms is having to pay for two sets of clothes and having to do double the laundry. Otherwise I'm in favor of uniforms. Kids from families that are better off can't rag on other students for not having the hottest fashions. Girls can't go to school dressed overtly...

I've tried printing a few ebooks but the combination of the font, the whiteness of the paper, and the width of the pages take all the enjoyment out of reading. The bright white of the paper is the aspect that bothers me the most though.

I think I tend to lump thriller and horror together and as such my expectations of what is horror is lower than others. I don't think horror should necessarily frighten me. A book about rats growing bigger than normal and swarming up and out of the sewers to dine on people isn't exactly...

I owned a pitbull once. Sweetest dog I've ever had. He didn't like mean and aggressive people. He jumped out the second floor window to stop some guy from pushing and yelling at his girlfriend. He could be menacing but he never bit anyone. He shredded a hockey puck and the wooden legs of a...

It's my middle name.

I always thought it was fashionable to like Tom Cruise. My favorite Tom Cruise movie would have to be Taps and I haven't seen that since it was first released in the theater. It's possible that I wouldn't like it so much today. None of the movies he's been in have been big hits with me, not...

I can't get into the whole books and coffee thing, but I could make good use of a books and produce store. :)

I'm a bargain shopper. I live on a pretty tight budget so I don't often buy newly released hardcover books. I typically wait for titles to come out in paperback before buying them. I turn to used bookstores for out of print books or and for older printings of older titles (I just enjoy...

I started reading The Martian Chronicles but I can't get into it.

Happy birthday. Just for you (well not really) I walked four miles (1 1/2 with a 40 pound child on my back) to pick up my car from the mechanics. It was quite a lovely walk, in the horrible heat and humidity and through that swarm of mosquitos that provoked me into carrying my son until I...

No one told me. It was just so freaking obvious to me. I don't see dead people but I do see overtly obviious endings, even when the writer/producer has convinced himself otherwise.

Before I could convince myself not to go, I grabbed my son and ran out the door. We spent the day at the zoo.