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."
01:32 So yeah, quick side note, I'm not a book-lover.
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