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Diogenes
Diogenes
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I’m beginning to see that this would be tricky and probably not cost-effective, but is there a inventory of books physically on the shelves?
Bintmcskint
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8:35pm, 30 Mar 2020
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Depends on the shop how that inventory is held but yes.

There are different stock-holding systems.
We had ours at Foyles linked to the website for a while but, like I said, it wasn't responsive enough to prevent orders being taken for things we didn't have and then were unable to get thus lots of refunds and unhappy customers. It is still connected but only for stock where there are multiple copies in stock. Plus they have had to turn off that part of the feed now as there are no staff in the shop to pick, process and pack the books and

I would assume small shops have a similar system with Hive but I have no idea how often it updates. I just don't think it will be cost effective or indeed possible for them to continue to provide a service without distributor back up.
beebop
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Mar 2020
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I was given a Waterstones voucher for my birthday and thought I’d better get round to spending it before the end times kick in - it took me most of the morning, trying every so often, to get the site to accept order and payment. Am slightly wondering what will turn up. Their website must have been very overloaded, but what can they do at the moment?
GregP
GregP
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I placed a Waterstones order early (c.07:00) this morning and it was fine - or as fine as the Waterstones website ever gets anyway.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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10:48am, 31 Mar 2020
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Morning all. Thus far, for Bin't's choccie box extravaganza TBR-a-thon, we have TBR lists from

Dippers
Owlers
Peregrinators
Little Nemo
McG
LindsCorp
Dio
Columba
Wrigglers

though Columba did say she wasn't bothered about taking part as such but has provided a TBR list for interest.

Of those that expressed an interest, we still need TBR pile details from

Bint
Chrisull
Bazoaxe

Also on the offshoot thread, we have two more takers yet to offer up TBRs
PaulaMc
BarnonessBL

Please get your ducks in a row, your TBRs in a pile and your mood music set to Smooth Jazz FM.
The Scribbler
The Scribbler
Mar 2020
10:53am, 31 Mar 2020
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Ooh I'll get myself organised and sort out a TBR pile. Back in a while...
PaulaMc
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I'll get on this asap. Mine will have to be Kindle choices - the only physical books I've had recently were given to me at Christmas and I've read all of those :)
Chrisull
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11:10am, 31 Mar 2020
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Too busy arguing with jda on the politics thread. Sigh.
The Scribbler
The Scribbler
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Here’s mine:


I have some on kindle too, but they’ll keep.
The Scribbler
The Scribbler
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I actually started Underland but was finding it a bit claustrophobic, so I put it aside for a while.

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June 2025 book


Welcome to Season Eight

June 2025 (Fetch)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin---june-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63689
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11908
Dystopian poll fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11910

May 2025 (Little Nemo)
The Last Days of New Paris (China Mieville)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-last-days-of-new-paris---china-mieville---may-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63656
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11899
Surrealist poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11906

April 2025 (McGoohan)
The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-beautiful-ones---april-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63597
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11835

March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/one-grand-summer---march-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63550
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11820

February 2025 (Chrisull)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead---feb-2025-book-group-discussion-63501
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11809

January 2025 (Maclennane)
I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/i-apos-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom---jason-pargin---jan-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63445
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11794

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Last two books of Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/mind-of-winter---dec-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63388
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11632

November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/appliance-by-j-o-morgan---nov-2024-book-group-choice-63327
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

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Serendippers - on a break
Linds
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The Scribbler
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Bint
Westmoors

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Chrisull
Night-owl
McG
Little Nemo
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