As much as we love books, we hate smelling old, bathed-in-other-people’s dead-skin dust used books. That’s why the First Annual Used Bookstore Crawl on Wednesday September 19 is so horrifying.
Founded by Patricia McFarland, the owner of Encinitas’ Book Tales, this event will see 26 people load up on a chartered bus for an all-day tour of eight of San Diego’s dusty, cracked-spine, used book stores, according to a story in the North County Times.
[McFarland] looked at the bookstore scene and found many store owners like her were disappearing. “It’s kind of scary on our part,” she said. “I’m one of the last, if not the last, used bookstore in Encinitas right now. There are not much of us left out there. And it’s not because there’s no reading public.” . . . Figuring much of the malaise was because of a lack of public awareness of used bookstores’ enduring existence, she was inspired to create the crawl.
The tour begins at 9 AM in the parking lot of The Ocean House in Carlsbad with Fahrenheit 451 as the first stop, then moves on to The Paperback Book Exchange, Ducky Waddles, Book Tales, Earth Song in Del Mar, Pennywise in Pacific Beach, and then downtown to San Diego’s Wahrenbrock’s Book House before finishing at Mysterious Galaxy in Clairemont. All this for $36.50 including lunch. For more on the Used Bookstore Crawl, contact (760) 436-7892.
[Link: North County Times]
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