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a deliberate re-dressing by young browsers, who loved watching the shocked reactions of sober readers finding sex manuals in the jackets of bird-watching guides or cookbooks – Jomama
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But I cannot see what thrills youngsters would get out of the switch because it might be days or weeks before someone comes in and looks at the switched book – TEd
Years ago, I worked in a bookstore that had a similar problem. We found it wasn’t that the kids wanted to play a prank, but that they wanted to look at books and magazines dealing with sex and would hide them in the covers of other books so they could look at them in the store without drawing too much attention to themselves.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Book Mafia (!) Jackie 10/14/04 03:47 PM Re: Book Mafia (!) grapho 10/15/04 01:50 AM Re: Book Mafia (!) clockworkchaos 10/15/04 11:50 AM Re: Book Mafia (!) TEd Remington 10/19/04 07:35 PM Re: Book Mafia (!) Owlbow 10/20/04 03:18 PM Re: Book Mafia (!) AnnaStrophic 10/20/04 03:26 PM Re: Book Mafia (!) Jackie 10/21/04 12:33 PM Re: Book Mischief Jomama 10/22/04 04:24 AM Re: Book Mischief Jackie 10/22/04 01:46 PM Re: Book Mischief TEd Remington 10/22/04 11:10 PM Re: Book Mischief Capfka 10/23/04 06:11 PM Re: Book Mischief Jomama 10/24/04 09:55 PM the word Owlbow 10/25/04 03:57 PM BIPOLAR: TEd Remington 10/25/04 06:38 PM Re: the word Jomama 10/27/04 06:07 AM heads up Owlbow 10/27/04 12:40 PM Re: heads up Dgeigh 10/27/04 07:39 PM
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