Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown - Shaun Bythell
Shared by:jodindy
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Read by Peter Kenny
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: February 7, 2023
Duration: 10:15:40
The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, is a booklover’s paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You’d think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don’t get him wrong; there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just looking for a nice cozy corner in which to wee. He’s sure there are some good ones. There must be …
Bythell records his interactions with his colorful Wigtown neighbors, presented in short anecdotal entries alongside a running tally of daily sales. There’s his free-spirited upstairs neighbor who teaches an unpopular belly dancing class, temporary employees who have “made a singularly ill-judged decision to become a bookseller, and an even worse choice to seek my counsel on the subject,” and a neighbor’s poodle that constantly relieves itself on Bythell’s azaleas. Then there are the customers, a motley assortment of the best and worst of humanity—some who quibble over a single pound and others who insist on tipping. Bythell’s biting wit combines with an obvious passion for the work, even as he struggles to maintain an online presence, a new necessity for secondhand shops: “I’ve now been suspended from Amazon, ABE and Facebook, all by algorithms.”
The time frame is prior to the advent of Covid, yet it’s a reminder of how bookstores remain sacred spaces, as well as the very real labor that goes into maintaining them: “The sun still rises in the east, and sets in the west. The shop is still here.” Bythell’s narration is equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles.
Filled with the pernickety warmth and humor that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems, and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
August 27th, 2023
I have been in this shop and met the owner. It is every bit as fascinating as it sounds.
Also read all his books, and heartily recommend them. Although that may have something to do with my being an ex-bookseller myself, albeit of the academic rather than secondhand variety. Academics can be very bit as much prima donnas with an over-inflated view of their own importance, but they can be charming as well.
Bit like people in general
August 27th, 2023
Thank you so much for uploading this @jodindy!! :D
@Grumpy1954 - I am curious as an ex-bookseller, why you might be here downloading books for free when you must know difficult it must be for book sellers to make a living these days? I’m not judging, as I am clearly here doing them same thing when I should be buying the book from Shaun directly. I’m just curious on your thoughts as someone who was on the other end of book piracy.
August 28th, 2023
@madtown This is a very fair question, and something that I have thought about more than once I do still buy a lot of books, my wife would say far too many. I try to use independent booksellers wherever possible, although where I live they are pretty scarce. I try to avoid any company that may be named after a South American river. Generally, though not always, the books I download from here are ones which I don’t know and which I find interesting for one reason or another. I like to listen to audiobooks when running, or on a long drive, this way the choice is far greater than in most bookshops. I am fully aware that this is not a proper justification, but it is how I rationalise it to salve my own conscience.
August 28th, 2023
Nice one. Thank you.
March 3rd, 2024
Thank you!
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