Printed Page is donating children's books to East Denver FISH, a food bank that delivers to needy local families. If a family can't get to a food bank, they probably can't get to a library, either, yet books in the home are the biggest single contributor to a child's academic success. Traci Sanders, a children's … [Read more...]
Fall book classes
The fall semester of the Printed Page College of Biblio Knowledge is set! We'll have two, two-hour classes from 7 to 9 pm on October 19 and 26 at Printed Page Bookshop. The classes cover the most important things you need to know about books: How to identify first editions, what are points, issues, states, what … [Read more...]
Seven years
August 16, 2016 is our seventh anniversary. When we opened, Broadway was under re-construction, the Kindle was the rage, and the economy was in the doldrums. You would be correct if you guessed we're not MBAs. But here we are seven years later, ranked a top used bookstore in Denver by Westword and a preferred … [Read more...]
The 150-book-a-day habit
And you think YOU buy a lot of books... For most of us, book collections are small, personal representations of our tastes, interests and budget. But there was a time when book collections were a public representation of ego, wealth and acquisitiveness. It was the golden age of book collecting. The late 19th … [Read more...]
The mystery of Readers Digest
You don't have to spend much time around books before you run into copies of Readers Digest Condensed Books -- lots and lots of copies. Like the magazine from which they took their name, the Readers Digest Condensed Books were hugely popular. But we've always wondered why. Isn't a good book something you want to … [Read more...]