Bookstore Day, the moon, and breakfast burritos 🌝🌯

Written By Justin Wieners

Newsletter #014

This blog was adapted from my monthly newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, which happens to be our family’s Super Bowl. It’s the biggest sales day of the year for most local bookshops, and we start planning in January to have inventory, promos, and new products ready to go. Don’t forget to support your local bookstore on April 25!

Here’s 10 things worth sharing:

  1. To prep for World Cup tourists, I put together a list of my favorite spots in our neighborhood, including the best breakfast burrito you will ever have. I present to you: The Perfect Day in Overland Park.
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  2. “If you’ve always wanted to do it… do it. Stop overthinking it. Try it. Do it small. Do it your way. But do it.” Ryan Holiday shares 5 years of lessons from running his own bookstore. I wrote a similar article last year of 10 things we learned from opening Monstera’s.
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  3. The best photos from Artemis II were apparently taken on a 10-year old Nikon because they can’t trust a camera that has never been tested in space!
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  4. My favorite lunar story: “In order to meet narrow weight margins for successful return,” Apollo astronauts had to leave their custom-built Hasselblad cameras on the surface of the moon. They brought their film back – but the cameras are still up there!
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  5. A few of our stickers and patches can now be found in Made In KC stores!! Keep an eye out for Soccer Boy and Hot Dog Man the next time you pop in. 🌭
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  6. New Dugout Paper Co. products! Check out our new “Hugs” sympathy card and “chewed-up pencil” sticker.
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  7. “Stop reading sh*t you don’t like.” Mark Manson on how to read more with less effort. “Do you finish movies that suck? TV shows? YouTube videos? No.”
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  8. Seth Godin on how your environment affects your habits: “If you want to drink more herbal tea, get a hot water dispenser that keeps it handy and on tap. On the other hand, if you want to watch less television, disconnect the TV after every viewing session. Convenience leads to consumption.”
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  9. We’re doing research for a very fun literary brand (🦉👀) and I have found the coolest inspo inside this book about the history of notable book covers.
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  10. Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing on reading:
    “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty – and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
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Thanks for reading!

Justin

 
 

Lots of new bookstore merch!

We’ve made lots of new bookstore merch to prep for Indie Bookstore Day. Check out some of our favorites on Instagram!

Our Favorite Bookstore Merch

 
 
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