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Paige Poe has a post at IndieBound.Org about Independents Week (June 27-July 4).  This is a subject dear to us as we try to continue to serve book lovers in the New River Valley.  You can help us celebrate our “independents” by donating books to your favorite locally owned coffee shop (us!) and purchasing in-house roasted coffee from small, sustainable farms like Selva Negra, La Minita, and Leopard Forest.

On July 4th, The Easy Chair Coffee Shop will convert our reading room to a small, high-quality used book section. All “new” inventory will be reduced to used book prices. Liberate your bookshelves of any hardcover, trade paperback or mass market paperback books that are falling off the end of the shelf. Maybe you have old book club books or you just want to make room for great new titles that are certain to come out this year. Box them up and bring them to the Easy Chair from July 1 to July 5 and get a free coffee or espresso beverage of your choice.

When you register on IndieBound.org, make sure you become a fan of The Easy Chair Coffee Shop.  We’re listed in both bookstores and coffee shops.  You can also RSVP for our event on Facebook.

Quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve stumbled upon today: Banned Books Locker Library

But is it real?  The Annoyed Librarian doesn’t think so. (Thanks, Chase.)

Stumbled across Blue Ridge Country via the Twitterverse.  There is an excellent blog post about balancing the excitement of new technology with the calming effect of old technology (books, the real kind).  I’ve been kicking around an entry on this topic for a couple weeks, but Editor Cara Ellen Modisett says it better than I can with her first entry.

You can now follow us on Twitter.  @baristanomics is our coffee-focused account but we will also update you about the status of our used book inventory through @BlacksburgReads. Especially if something interesting comes in.  So, if you tweet, make sure you look us up and follow along.

Other updates will include new coffee arrivals, roast production schedule, cool coffee drink ideas.  Wide open.  We are slowly putting the call out for used book donations and have already received several large contributions from loyal Easy Chair customers.  Also in the works, Selva Negra coffee at the Farmers Market and Blacksburg coffee delivery via bicycle.

A gigantic cultural sinkhole is opening under your feet.  Don’t pause to look at it.  You can’t negotiate with it.  It isn’t going to change its mind.

Your only salvation is contained in the musty piles of books you can’t bear to part with but will never read again.  Package those lost treasures up in neat piles and drop them off at the Easy Chair Coffee Shop in Blacksburg where you will be rewarded with a wink and a nod and maybe a cup of coffee.  We have the perfect space for a compact selection of used books.  We have better coffee than you can make at home.  We have espresso.  And if enough people believe Blacksburg needs a used bookstore, well, then we will sell you books nobody wanted…until now.