As a shop assistant there are moments when I can only aspire
to that great shop assistant Mr Humphries whose mirror image John Inman would
go shop-window dressing when he contracted skinttitis out on the boards.
So I have been following –
like a fourth doppelganger, he, his mirror image, a long line of
Ramsgate shop-assistants and possibly the evolution of the arm, down the road
of linking it all up.
In the world where most booksellers and a lot of other
shop-assistants have looked at the internet an thrown in the towel I very much
see the internet as an aid-de-camp, sorry I think I mean de livre.
So for some time now I have been putting photos of the books
going out on the shelves in my bookshop on the internet every working day, see http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/
I have extended this activity into window dressing.
So the plan now is that having priced the new secondhand
books coming into the bookshop, photographed them, put the photographs online,
I then take out the books I put into the window on the previous days trading
and put the ones I have just processed init.
Joking apart, shops are an integral part of our
communities and as now the internet has also become an integral part of local
communities the way local shopping integrates with local internet is probably
important in maintaining local communities.
sorry about any errors will proof rude later
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.