There are several bookstores in town where I have to set an arbitrary cap (usually $100) before I can go into them. This was never a problem at Kate's. Whenever I went with a particular title or author in mind, I always left disappointed. A female-run bookstore in Chicago and you've got no Willa Cather?
Once, when the clerk actually asked if I found what I was looking for, I confessed that the particular Faulkner novel I was looking for wasn't in stock. She offered to take my email address and notify me if it came in, or if it was available at their other store. About a month later, I got notification that they had gotten in an anthology of his short stories. (I own a comprehensive edition.) Never tried to make use of this "service" again.
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There are several bookstores in town where I have to set an arbitrary cap (usually $100) before I can go into them. This was never a problem at Kate's. Whenever I went with a particular title or author in mind, I always left disappointed. A female-run bookstore in Chicago and you've got no Willa Cather?
Once, when the clerk actually asked if I found what I was looking for, I confessed that the particular Faulkner novel I was looking for wasn't in stock. She offered to take my email address and notify me if it came in, or if it was available at their other store. About a month later, I got notification that they had gotten in an anthology of his short stories. (I own a comprehensive edition.) Never tried to make use of this "service" again.