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   John McChesney-Young (jmccyoung@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 02:52:23 JST John McChesney-Young

   At this #Oakland basement bookstore, customers browse with cocktails in hand
   https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/11/clios-bookstore-bar-oakland
   "Bibliophiles will likely notice the shelves of books at Clio’s are not organized alphabetically or by the Dewey decimal system. As helpful chalk markings above the shelves indicate, the books at Clio’s are arranged by decade. This makes for some odd bedfellows: you can find Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sharing space with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the 1880s section..." #sfba

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 02:59:40 JST Sean Bala

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     @jmccyoung

     LOVE the concept of a chronologically organized bookstore.

     One of my favorite facts from grad school was that three of the most important American books in the 19th Century - Moby Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Scarlet Letter - were all published in the same year (1852). Blew my mind.