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Best Ever Independent Bookstore Day for Main Street Books
The Main Street Book Store team. (photo courtesy MSB)
Saturday’s celebration of Independent Bookstore Day was the best of all of our years.
We have a tremendous staff that is greater than the sum of its parts, amplifying each other’s creativity, generosity, empathy, and sense of humor. I love working with them so much, and from the smiles on your faces today, I’m pretty sure y’all enjoy their good work, too.
I thought I’d share some numbers from our day, but as you can see from our photos it was a really busy day. So while these stats were conjured rather than calculated, they feel emotionally accurate.
Here’s how our day shook out:
- 22 – # of times the bell rang, rousing a storewide cheer for a reader who had completed their Book Crawl passport
- 1,718,962 – # of times a goldbug was found, traded for a Treasure Box prize, and re-hidden in the store
- 4 – the number of minutes the Prize Wheel spins if you give it too much giddyup
- 79 – the number of glasses of “Are you there god? It’s me, Virgin Margarita” served at our mocktail bar
- 300 – the number of fans who turned up to hear @robertbeattybooks speak for Mooresville Library’s Community Read. (This is factual!)
- 2 – the number of bookstores working together to assist the @mooresvillelibrary with their wildly successful Serafina event; it was such fun to work with @fredandjunes
- 13 – the number of booksellers that worked together to host this epic day with the Main Street Books community
- 1,000 – the number of thank yous I wish to bestow on every one of you who crossed our threshold