Episode 122 || Buy or Borrow?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do you buy all of your books or do you borrow some? Annie and Chris answer a listener question and discuss their personal libraries, where they get their books, and what to do with the whole idea of a library when they spend their lives in the Bookshelf. This episode is also kind of a follow-up to Episode 83 || Books in Houses. "A home without books is like a body without a soul." - Pseudo-Cicero

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0:00.0	Can I get your opinion on something before we're done today?
0:05.0	Of course.
0:06.0	What are your thoughts on me with clear glasses?
0:11.0	Strong, no.
0:12.0	No.
0:13.0	No.
0:14.0	Why?
0:15.0	What's so wrong with about them?
0:16.0	I feel like they look fine on my face.
0:18.0	I don't know what they look like on your face, but you are not the kind of person who would
0:22.0	wear clear glasses. I feel like graphic designers wear clear glasses. Yeah, are you a graphic designer? Actually, yeah, you are. What am I saying? You're very good at that. Wait a minute. Jordan Jones hates them. Yeah, I am with Jordan Jones. I think they're terrible. I'm sorry to all of our listeners out there who wear clear glasses, but that's wrong.
0:21.5	I want listeners Jordan Jones. I think they're terrible. I'm sorry to all of our listeners out there who wear clear glasses, but that's wrong. I want listeners to weigh in. I want to vote. I want to know, can I wear clear glasses? Yeah. And so many people are going to be like, you can do whatever you want, Annie. It's great. You can wear clear glasses if you want. And like, I'm going to tell you straight up you're wrong
0:54.5	I mean okay no one should wear them they're terrible like they are awful if you wear clear
0:59.8	glasses you should feel bad welcome to episode a2 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books,
1:17.2	small business, and life in the South. My name is Chris Jensen and I have a lot of books in my home.
1:22.3	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
1:26.4	Thomasville, Georgia. I should say that many of the books in my home came from the bookshelf.
1:31.4	You're welcome.
1:32.1	Yep.
1:33.5	We're talking about buying and borrowing books.
1:37.2	Buy or borrow.
1:38.2	We're doing this because somebody wrote us an email.
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