A CURATOR'S STOCK CHECK

By Dr. R Sudarshan

The curator of Silverfish Books is doing a stock check. It isn't easy to check every single title of the over 10,000 stock and update the database of book parameters. It takes weeks to complete the process, and it allows a number of discoveries.

Hundreds of people that come and browse before buying, treat the books in a hundred different ways. While most of them are kind, some can be the bulls in a china shop. A few book covers are torn, some pages are folded, some books go missing, some binds are pulled and most of all, the children cause a lot of damage to the volumes. The embedded toys, stickers, pull-outs, and pop-ups are at times taken away by the children and the damaged books are silently stashed in a corner, even when the accompanying parents may know what their wards did.

That's the difference between an accessible bookstore and an online platform. Online, you just get a book that you ask for without any experience of browsing. At a store, people browse and some of them may leave behind a trail of the storm.

In a bookstore, it is not that some books just remain unsold. Some books are rendered unsaleable as well.

For any relevant query, message 81051 12990.

Silverfish Books, Farmer's House, # 1A - 13th Cross, Kalidasa Road, VV Mohalla, Mysore.

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[21/05, 14:39] Sudhanshu: Hardworking

[21/05, 15:04] BS Ranganath: No substitute for hard work

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