{"id":1085,"date":"2007-09-16T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2007-09-16T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T00:39:28","slug":"carlsbad-hosts-the-book-crawl-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Hosts The Book Crawl Kick Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/10-56-089-15-07.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/10-56-089-15-07.jpg','popup','width=600,height=426,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/10-56-089-15-07-tm.jpg\" height=\"142\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"10 56 089 15 07\" \/><\/a>As much as we love books, we hate smelling old, bathed-in-other-people&#8217;s dead-skin dust used books. That&#8217;s why the <strong>First Annual Used Bookstore Crawl<\/strong> on Wednesday September 19 is so horrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by <strong>Patricia McFarland<\/strong>, the owner of Encinitas&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encinitasbooktales.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Tales<\/a><\/strong>, this event  will see 26 people load up on a chartered bus for an all-day tour of eight of San Diego&#8217;s dusty, cracked-spine, used book stores, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/16\/lifeandtimes\/10_56_089_15_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[McFarland] looked at the bookstore scene and found many store owners like her were disappearing. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of scary on our part,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;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&#8217;s not because there&#8217;s no reading public.&#8221; . . . Figuring much of the malaise was because of a lack of public awareness of used bookstores&#8217; enduring existence, she was inspired to create the crawl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tour begins at 9 AM in the parking lot of <strong>The Ocean House<\/strong> in Carlsbad with <strong>Fahrenheit 451<\/strong> as the first stop, then moves on to <strong>The Paperback Book Exchange<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duckywaddles.com\/Scripts\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Ducky Waddles<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encinitasbooktales.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Tales<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsongbooks.com\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Song<\/a><\/strong> in Del Mar, <strong>Pennywise<\/strong> in Pacific Beach, and then downtown to San Diego&#8217;s <strong>Wahrenbrock&#8217;s Book House<\/strong> before finishing at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp\" target=\"_blank\">Mysterious Galaxy<\/a><\/strong> in Clairemont. All this for $36.50 including lunch. For more on the <strong>Used Bookstore Crawl<\/strong>, contact (760) 436-7892.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/16\/lifeandtimes\/10_56_089_15_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as we love books, we hate smelling old, bathed-in-other-people&#8217;s dead-skin dust used books. That&#8217;s why the First Annual Used Bookstore Crawl on Wednesday September 19 is so horrifying. Founded by Patricia McFarland, the owner of Encinitas&#8217; Book Tales, this event will see 26 people load up on a chartered bus for an all-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}