A missing letter S on a request slip leads Sybil to a dark place. Thinking that she's looking to see which libraries nationwide are holdings copies of a novel for genteel ladies she finds herself looking at cataloguing details of a book which describes itself as "the ultimate pin-up book of soft-porn punk princesses." This comes as a surprise at first as Sybil knows that Verity is the very model of probity and wouldn't dream of asking for naughty books for her library. It comes as a relief to realise the spelling error.
There is still a body of opinion that says that we should get the ultimate pin-up book of soft-porn punk princesses. Stock selection is always a burning issue in public libraries.
"We're always saying that we need to attract the young male demographic to our libraries."
"Yes, we should buy a copy while we're still allowed to buy any books. It would go out on loan OK."
"It would go out on loan OK but we'd never see it again once it had gone out."
"And we'd have to laminate the pages..."
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I didn't know that there were enough of them to fill a book. One lives and one learns.
if one is unlucky...
PIN UP book.... for one minute of misreading there I thought it was POP UP book...
Might be a gem of an idea there mind you...
Macy: the New York Public Library takes the Braille edition of Playboy. I make no further comment. (-:
"And we'd have to laminate the pages..."
Eugh! Too much information!
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