17 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Bookstores

3. THEY CAN SPOT THE BOOKWORMS FROM A MILE AWAY.

Just browsing? Bookstore workers can tell. “Cookbooks is one of the sections where that happens the most,” Orphan says. “Art books and cookbooks. The people who are going to buy books, I can tell by the way they look at them, touch them, start carrying them around in a stack. I can always tell when people come up who is going to buy a book and who isn’t.”