Oooo! Want to run a book store? Just enter the Win Ownership of While Away Books essay contest and you might become the new owner of an Oregon used bookstore. Oh yeah, on top of the essay, you’ll have to send in a $250 entry fee. There are days when running a book store sounds like a great next step, though I suspect that my picture of what the job entails involves an unrealistic degree of sitting around reading. And I’d go about aquiring a store in a less sketchy manner. [via Metafilter]
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