THE BOOKSHOP AT THE END OF THE INTERNET...
It is highly plausible, if not inevitable, that at some point in the near future a natural disaster or grand human error will set off a series of events that will take down satellites, tele-communications and possibly all of the digital/technological infrastructure that our modern culture has become so heavily dependent upon. Whether this is due to an Mclass CME (like the Carrington Event of 1859) or an act of cyber warfare, the results will be nearly identical…the simultaneous collapse of all the systems and structures that hold our concepts of order and stability up. When systems fail what will become important? Where will we collectively turn for information when the screens go black and there’s no Siri or Alexa to call upon? Books… physical ones…obviously.
...OR THE RENAISSANCE OF AN AUTODIDACTICALLY INFORMED SOCIAL CLASS
Even if such an apocalyptic event is far off (or never comes), we believe it's imperative to rescue, safeguard and preserve the knowledge found in books. This safeguarding is especially critical in a timeframe where fewer and fewer people have the attention span to sit down and read a book, when brick and mortar bookshops are going the way of the payphone, and culture at large is glutted and over inundated with inane and insignificant information (ie: Kardashian romance updates, the memeification of all possible subjects/emotions, not to mention the social-drama du jour).
The information found in our archive and bookstore remain useful without constant updates - it’s nothing new. It will never bombard you or make an economy of your attention, it will sit on a shelf and patiently wait for your eyes.
...OR AN ARCHIVE FOR DISCARDED PRINT CONTENT.
As an institute for the preservation of tactile information for real life, we find great value in re-cycling and re-circulating in the physical realm (especially as a reprieve from the overwhelmingly vast and endless modes of internet-based knowledge acquisition).
Each title listed for sale in the shop has been hand-plucked from the literal dustbins of America. Their original owners have gone to greener pastures, been lost to the cult of Kondo or succumbed to the tyranny of the tablet, so we’ve selected the best, the brightest and the wierdest (no Tom Clancy or Oprah’s book club tomes here), dusted them off and offer them now to you for adoption*.
*because we believe in information sharing and flipping the finger to Bezos, you will find all of our prices below the going Amazon market price. In some cases we’re pretty much just charging enough to cover the shipping costs.