Springwood Book Lounge

10/11/2024

07/06/2024

Thanks to Yan for sharing this gem. Trust Umberto Eco to encapsulate what it really means to love to read and to love books.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

24/03/2024

FINAL DAYS
Bargains to clear
50% off Mind Body Spirit, True Crime, Travel and Cookery
ENDS 27 MARCH

13/03/2024

FLASH SALE CONTINUES ...

25% off Mind Body Spirit titles

* in-store only

11/03/2024

FLASH SALE!

We are having a moving sale. This week ...

20% off paperback fiction

20/12/2023

It's the 21st of December ...
Happy Gravy Day!

16/10/2023

Libraries are great, but don't forget your local bookshop, wherever you may be. You never know when you will feel the need to reach for a book!

Definitely. Whatever you're doing, take a book along. Find books at your local public library.

06/10/2023

Don't forget! Today is Love Your Bookshop Day ... and Day 7 of the Blue Mountains Bookshop Trail Love Your Bookshop Month Challenge. Support one of your lovely local booksellers and help them to thrive.

And if you haven't already, enter our Love Your Bookshop Month Challenge for a chance to win one of two prizes, each $120 worth of bookshop gift vouchers. Here’s how to enter:

1. Get the Bookshop Trail Stamping sheet (double sided) from one of our bookshops or download it online print it yourself (available at www.goodearthbookshop.com)

2. Fill in your name and email address on the stamp sheet. Your email will not be shared with anyone else besides the bookshops on the trail. We may use it to notify you about this and other events planned by bookshops on the Blue Mountains Bookshop Trail. You may always unsubscribe to these emails if you do not wish to receive them.

3. Complete the Blue Mountains Bookshop Trail anytime from 1-31 October 2023. At each of the 12 bookshops request a stamp to fill up your stamp sheet. You do not need to purchase anything to receive a stamp.

4. Only one sheet and one entry per person.

5. Hand the completed stamp sheet in at any of our bookshops. They will sight your completed sheet, photograph it, mark it completed and record your details to enter you into the draw.

6. The draw will occur at 5pm on Tue 31 Oct and the two winners will be announced on Wed 1 Nov via Blue Mountains Bookshop trail Instagram and Facebook. Winners will be notified via email.

7. Please like and share our Love Your Bookshop Month Challenge posts!

8. Please take pics of your Love Your Bookshop Month Challenge experience, post them and tag us!




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