Ever Read any Books off the Shelves in a Book Store

[j_brower]

Have you found yourself walking into a bookstore just to buy one book, when all of a sudden you become mesmerized by all the shelves and stacks of hundreds upon thousands of books. You see a book and you become intrigued but what you read, and a simple skim turns into thorough examination of every letter.
It happens a lot to me.

[KNewton]

Oh yes! This happens often...I usually don't end up buying what I went to pick up unless it's part of a series. The last book that I ended up basically just reading in the store was Lone Survivor. I picked it up because the cover caught my eye, next thing I know I'm sitting at a table in the bookstore coffee area halfway through the book with missed calls from my husband wondering where I am.

[J5Panda90]

I do a lot of skimming when I'm in a bookstore but it's only happened to me once where I picked a book off the shelf and actually sat down to read a chunk of it. It was Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and I ended up buying the book that day.

[Bighuey]

It wasnt exactly a bookstore, it was a large chain discount store where I worked on graveyard shift. A lot of nights I was alone in the store, I remember one night I finished my work early and was looking through some books in the book section and started reading a biography of Jackie Gleason. I just meant to skim through it, but ended up reading the whole thing.

[zeldas_lullaby]

It wasnt exactly a bookstore, it was a large chain discount store where I worked on graveyard shift. A lot of nights I was alone in the store, I remember one night I finished my work early and was looking through some books in the book section and started reading a biography of Jackie Gleason. I just meant to skim through it, but ended up reading the whole thing.

I did that same thing when I was working third shift at a residential treatment center. The unit had a library, and I'd read the Baby-Sitters Club books, because that's what they had.

[KitKat_Reader]

I've never done that because I know I can't let myself go into a bookstore alone or I'll come out broke. I don't know why I do this, but sometimes I will flip through and just read a random sentence from a few different pages.

[Bighuey]

It wasnt exactly a bookstore, it was a large chain discount store where I worked on graveyard shift. A lot of nights I was alone in the store, I remember one night I finished my work early and was looking through some books in the book section and started reading a biography of Jackie Gleason. I just meant to skim through it, but ended up reading the whole thing.

I did that same thing when I was working third shift at a residential treatment center. The unit had a library, and I'd read the Baby-Sitters Club books, because that's what they had.

When I was a kid I used to read comic books in the store, usually they just kicked me out.

[SmLovesBooks12]

Yes!! I love/hate it because I usually don't buy it mostly because I've already bought enough.But yeah, sometimes I pick it up and read a few pages

[zeldas_lullaby]

It wasnt exactly a bookstore, it was a large chain discount store where I worked on graveyard shift. A lot of nights I was alone in the store, I remember one night I finished my work early and was looking through some books in the book section and started reading a biography of Jackie Gleason. I just meant to skim through it, but ended up reading the whole thing.

I did that same thing when I was working third shift at a residential treatment center. The unit had a library, and I'd read the Baby-Sitters Club books, because that's what they had.

When I was a kid I used to read comic books in the store, usually they just kicked me out.

Sorry to hear that!

[gali]

When I do that, I end up buying the books.

[thanhnv]

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[Sarah Clay]

I tend to be in a group when I go to a bookstore, and they always drag me out after merely twenty minutes. But if I were alone, I'd probably stay until closing time and read the first thing I could grab.

[hannahbm13]

This usually doesn't happen to me. I'll read all of the covers to see what they're about, but I think everybody does that. Sometimes I will get the urge to start reading it, but that just makes me that much more excited to bring it home and start it!

[Charity_Rowell]

I sometimes do this if a book that I've been waiting for has been released. The last time I did this was when I had forgotten that Terry McMillan's Getting to Happy was on shelves. I went to the bookstore to browse and stumbled upon it. I was so excited that I plopped down in the middle of the aisle at Barnes and Noble and read the first chapter.

[stoppoppingtheP]

I do this. Perhaps when I'm waiting for somebody I pick up a book and have read a big chunk before I am called off.