Release Your Inner Geek: Start A Bookselling Empire Online

Release Your Inner Geek: Start A Bookselling Empire Online

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Starting your own business begins with a seed of an idea. Then that idea blooms with hard work and an entrepreneurial mind into your own little empire. But what if you don’t have an idea yet? Well, they say the most successful businesses are formed from things you actually enjoy. If you can get drawn in by worlds only described on a page. Or you lose hours to a good book and a cup of coffee; you are a self-confessed book geek. And that is the perfect place to start your business. Not only does starting a bookselling empire mean…
Love Books? Build Your Own Little Library

Love Books? Build Your Own Little Library

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Contributed Post Libraries are a staple of life. We used them during elementary school days, having lessons inside them with interactive elements. We used them during high school, to try and get our heads down for studying away from distracting things like having a social life. We used them for the same reasons during the college days, and we might have even felt like we lived in one. And as adults, we go back to them for a sense of nostalgia, and to borrow a book we don’t feel like buying every now and then. But it still feels like…
3 Reasons Your Book Collections Are FAR Better Than TV

3 Reasons Your Book Collections Are FAR Better Than TV

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Contributed Post There’s an alert that some TV streaming sites bring up to tell you when you’ve watched a certain number of hours of television. You get asked whether you are okay and want to keep watching, or whether you want to end the programme that you are currently in the middle of. Anyone who hasn’t come across this message before, has clearly never got in their sweats and binge watched a series or two for a day. Let’s be honest; chilling out in front of the latest and greatest TV show is a rite of passage for a work…
Banned Books: Yay Or Nay?

Banned Books: Yay Or Nay?

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Contributed Post Censorship is a divisive issue. Everyone has different standards for what's acceptable. But, when it comes to games and films, age ratings are commonplace, and most of us would agree they’re necessary. They’re in place to protect kids. Watching an R rated horror is sure to scare a seven-year-old out of their skin. Ratings are also a way to keep kids from bad language, or sexual images. Image Source But, this banned book week we thought it’d be worth considering book censorship. Though an issue which has caused many debates, the western world still has unhindered access to…

Why did I stop reading books?

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After never being away from a book for more than a few days at a time my entire life, the last year has been devoid of finished books. What went wrong? If that sounds like the setup for a piece that is going to explore some interesting ideas about reading, let me spoil it for you: It's not. I genuinely ran into a wall. Not for lack of trying. I read on a daily basis, often for work (research, etc.), and regularly for pleasure. I subscribe to a number of magazines -- yes, print magazines are still a thing! --…