There's something rather horrifying about hearing your manager, the manager of a *bookstore*, assert, emphatically, that most of the stuff in books is merely "junk," fit only for skipping over. Me, I call that "skimming"---and I use the word loosely---but he proudly informs us all that he "reads" several books a day. Good grief. I can only be very, very grateful that no one's been foolish enough to give him a position in publishing.

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