What is in a name? | The Examiner | December 26, 2023 - video Dailymotion

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Toby Wools-Cobb of Quixotic Books talks to Steph Dalton about Christmas, Boxing day sales and benefits of the gift of books. Video Rod Thompson

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00:00 Yeah, so just basically taking that opportunity of feeling like a lot of larger businesses

00:10 are going to open Boxing Day, so taking advantage of that foot traffic.

00:14 Yeah, and there's definitely some people milling around out there, so not a bad idea.

00:20 And so, what have you found, especially over this Christmas period, have been really popular

00:24 with people, I suppose, buying gifts?

00:27 So, the bookshop Quixotic Books holds a special, unique area where I specialise in books that

00:33 are hard to find offered in Australian bookstores, but it's still been published in the last

00:37 10 years.

00:38 They're just books that just don't really make it to Australia, or don't make it to

00:41 Australian bookshelves or online shelves, if you like.

00:45 So my shop tends to attract a lot of people that kind of go, "Right, I want to get something

00:49 that's just really out there, a little bit curious."

00:52 I also emphasise on history, whether it's historical fiction or historical non-fiction.

00:57 And my books tend to lend themselves to being good gifts because it is a bit of a surprise

01:03 they'll get a book called Thermodynamics, the book about how poets responded to the

01:10 invention of electricity.

01:11 Things that you kind of go, "Ah, I've never seen that type of book."

01:15 Quite a few people would get a stack and kind of go, "Well, these are from me."

01:19 And I'd go, "Oh, I've never seen that."

01:22 One for you, one for me.

01:23 Yeah, yeah, that's a good system.

01:24 So would you mind telling me a little bit about the name of the bookshop?

01:25 Because I've been in here a couple of times and walked by, and I'm sure I'm not the only

01:26 one that's curious.

01:27 Yeah, yeah, I get people that ... I've had one person even ring me up and say, "Look,

01:28 Sadie will have an argument with me.

01:29 How do you pronounce your name?

01:30 What is it?

01:31 I don't want to come into the bookshop."

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What is in a name? | The Examiner | December 26, 2023

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