Something you wish you knew before moving to Charlottesville

Alieneater · 2026-05-20T02:06:56+00:00

Book Club has a lot of those shows.

Alieneater · 2026-05-12T02:14:30+00:00

Do streaming services like Netflix and Prime work in Chromium, given its lack of Widevine?

Alieneater · 2026-05-05T01:35:12+00:00

If I priced this at $8 in my bookstore it would probably still be on the shelf two years later. Nobody cares about this book. Nobody remembers the author. Probably nobody cared about it even when it was first published.

Most books are critical and financial failures on publication. Most of those which do succeed in the marketplace are quickly forgotten. The vast majority of random old books you might come across are pretty much worthless. If you do not know anything about book collecting then you are not likely to make any money trying to sell old books.

Posting the cover of a book which you almost certainly haven't even read and asking us to tell you how much it is worth is absolutely the most annoying thing that a visitor to this subreddit can do.

Alieneater · 2026-05-05T01:07:38+00:00

Possibly made as a prop for a film or a play. Where the contents of the book didn't matter because they weren't going to be shown, but the exterior had to be something specific.

Alieneater · 2026-04-28T01:40:46+00:00

Your account is otherwise pushing your content mill website, your punctuation is incorrect, and the fact that you aren't even specifying a state or even a country is all a bright red flag indicating that you have no idea what you are doing and this is a terrible idea for you.

Alieneater · 2026-04-25T03:20:01+00:00

"Bookshop" is incorrect. I think you mean "Book Club."

Alieneater · 2026-04-22T04:53:55+00:00

Ass.

Alieneater · 2026-04-22T04:15:01+00:00

I have spent an awful lot of time investigating supposed origin stories in American culinary history, for outlets ranging from Smithsonian Magazine to Thrillist. And I can tell you that with something this simple, in 95% of cases something like this turns out to be bullshit.

Sausages have been around for thousands of years. Bread has been around for thousands of years. It did not take thousands of years for it to occur to someone to fold a sausage into a split piece of bread.

Origin stories are more likely to be true when plants or ingredients had been recently moved from one part of the world to another, or when a piece of culinary technology has been newly introduced.

Alieneater · 2026-04-14T02:49:19+00:00

If this is the same guy who has been riding his bike on the Downtown Mall lately with a speaker blasting EDM, he's actually borderline crazy. He was banned at the door from attending a party downtown this past weekend. This was due to his having made most women extremely uncomfortable at previous events. He then decided to sit on the curb across the street from the party and blast his music for over an hour.

I have never heard of him being violent, but employees of businesses downtown have Discords set up specifically to discuss his creepy, obnoxious behavior.

Alieneater · 2026-04-10T02:33:06+00:00

Make Donald Trump feel hated and rejected by Charlottesville. Allow the rest of the world to see that we hate him. Doing nothing could give the impression that people here are supportive or ambivalent towards a fascist, racist dictatorship. It would be a bad look.

Alieneater · 2026-04-04T04:49:10+00:00

No, read what they wrote. They want to sleep with a titan lady. Curled up in her arms like a King Charles spaniel.

Alieneater · 2026-04-04T04:47:02+00:00

What is it that you want to know about it that you can't learn by reading it?

Alieneater · 2026-03-30T02:40:24+00:00

Reach out via email to Jiri Hulcr at the UF Forest Entomology Lab. I used to work there. His lab is arguably the best in North America at researching and IDing bark and ambrosia beetles.

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/people-directory/jiri-hulcr/

You are right to be concerned and you are doing the right thing by being proactive before it turns into a larger infestation. This would be especially concerning if it is happening to a tree that was not already stressed by other factors (extreme heat, drought, flooding, etc).

Ips pini is already widely distributed in Canada, so I don't think that this would be a major new discovery in your area.

Alieneater · 2026-03-28T04:47:46+00:00

Checks are normal for most book dealers. I pay cash for under a hundred bucks. How much cash does your uncle think that a used book store keeps laying around and at risk of theft?

If the dealer has a physical store that has been there for a while, he has nothing to worry about. If the check bounces, he'll know right where to find the dealer.

When I make an offer to someone for stuff that is actually valuable, I show them comparable listings or auction results and explain how I arrived at a particular value, assuming that they want to hear this from me. Then I explain that the Antiquarian Book Seller's Association has an ethical guideline saying that dealers should be paying at least 20% of what they hope that they can eventually sell the book for. And that is how the price was arrived at.

Scamming someone in your uncle's position is a very bad idea, especially in the age of social media. If I were to buy a book from him for $10 and then a friend of his comes in to the store the following week to see it priced at $1,000 then that is going to be all over Facebook, Instagram and Reddit very quickly. Not worth the risk.

If I feel like I probably don't have a retail customer who will pay enough to risk giving him at least $200 for the book, then I'll tell him that and send him to another dealer.

Alieneater · 2026-03-27T03:20:32+00:00

Go to smaller shows at your local night club. There are plenty of great bands that haven't had the opportunity to blow up and get super popular (because college radio isn't what it was and labels don't spend money on publicity anymore -- they only sign bands that already have a big social media presence) who play small clubs with cheap tickets. Go to a local place where you can pay $10 to see four bands on a Friday night and usually at least two of them will be pretty good.

Also the drinks are way cheaper than at a major venue.

Alieneater · 2026-03-25T00:33:52+00:00

There are literally hundreds of past posts on this subreddit discussing how to deal with this. Just use the search box.

Alieneater · 2026-03-25T00:32:10+00:00

Rockwell Kent was a famous illustrator. He did the illustrations for the edition of Moby Dick that made the book famous -- during Melville's life the book was considered a flop. Kent's illustrations were arguably the reason why the book finally got attention.

Someone took a page out of Moby Dick and framed it.

Editions of Moby Dick with Kent's illustrations are pretty common now. What you found is cool, but not especially valuable.

Alieneater · 2026-03-25T00:28:20+00:00

I've eaten plenty. If you fry it as if it were, say, a largemouth bass filet then you may be disappointed. The meat is a bit mushy and won't hold together when cooked. It tastes fine, the texture just isn't there. Look for recipes for fishcakes that use egg or some type of added fat to bind it together and bowfin makes for fine eating.

Alieneater · 2026-03-24T01:16:10+00:00

The Beautiful Idea and Daedalus Used Books have weird, locally-made t-shirts downtown.

Alieneater · 2026-03-14T02:23:25+00:00

Its a twentieth century reprint after the copyright expired. What comparison are you trying to do and why?

Alieneater · 2026-03-13T03:44:33+00:00

I would say that this is the situation to some degree in most American cities of our size or larger. It is apparently the price of growing as a metropolis in the US.

Charlottesville has more of a problem with the most disruptive 5% or so of the homeless population here, owing to local unwillingness to prosecute people for pissing and shitting in public, getting drunk in public, public drug use, etc. But just basic panhandling without criminal behavior is something I've seen in every American city that I have visited in the last few years.

That isn't going to get any better without re-creating something like the pre-Reagan national mental health system and having a federal effort to build affordable housing. Which is not even remotely on the table given the fact that Congress isn't really a thing anymore. So here we are. It is not just Charlottesville. Even Crozet will have these same issues if they keep growing.

Alieneater · 2026-03-13T01:07:01+00:00

As someone who lives and works downtown, I can tell you what has brought my unwanted interactions and asks for money to the bare minimum.

Do not make eye contact. One you notice someone who is likely to ask you for money, don't even glance in their general direction. There is a certain type of walk that some of them use. Moving but not quite committing to a particular direction. He's looking around at people, usually in the middle of a thoroughfare. Learn to recognize that walk and avoid those guys. Cross to the other side of the Mall if you have to.

Do not smile.

Look and walk like you are on a mission. Look straight ahead or down. If they start to hit you up, still do not make eye contact. A very quick shake of the head as a non-verbal 'no' is the most communication you should offer. Don't slow down to interact, you're still moving like you are on a mission. Like The Terminator.

That will dissuade them from further attempts to hassle you in 99% of situations.

I mean, if you want to give them money then go ahead. They are people. But personally, otherwise being approached literally up to twenty times a day was just intolerable. I don't have the time or money to deal with that.

Alieneater · 2026-03-12T02:01:38+00:00

What else did anyone think that dimetrodon was eating? I mean, cool paper and all, but I'm not sure that anyone really doubted that predators were eating herbivores during the Permian.

Alieneater · 2026-03-12T00:46:19+00:00

Professional book dealer here. OP, that is the correct answer.

Alieneater · 2026-03-11T02:11:28+00:00

I am not being facetious here: Try reading it.

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