Showing posts with label Bookstores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bookstores. Show all posts

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Texas Book Festival

Every year the Texas Book Festival is held in Austin, with many of the events occuring in or around the capitol building.

There were tons of tents with books on display, and authors on hand to sign their books.
We went to see 4 political authors discuss the upcoming election in the state senate chamber. The calendar shows you when various authors are speaking or debating.
A couple of goats help this author to promote Goat Tales:
Inside one of the book tents:

Monday, September 1, 2008

Half Price Books- South

We're still trying to milk the 20% off weekend at Half Price Books. We only ended up making it to two locations this weekend- this one is the South Austin location.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Half Price Books- Central

There are a bunch of Half Price Books locations in the Austin area. Our goal is to get to at least 3 of them this weekend, since everything is an additional 20% off for Labor Day weekend. So... get ready for incessant posts about Half Price!



Saturday, August 23, 2008

intellectual property

The bookstore "intellectual property," in the strip of stores across from UT, lures you inside with the artwork all over the outside of the store.
I mean come on, Johnny Cash and the Virgin Mary? How can you not want to take a peek inside?
It's a big bookstore with a bunch of different sections. It's pretty much impossible to buy a book from a regularly priced bookstore when you're aware of the existence of Half Price Books, but it's still fun to browse around in a silly list price bookstore.
High ceilings, quotes written on a skinny strip of blackboard above the windows.

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