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Independent Chicago bookstore owner’s tweet venting over $800 return goes viral

Por: Chicago Sun Times Entertainment January 11, 2023

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Little kids ripping pages out of pop-up books before putting them back on the shelf. Not-so-sly customers buying books, reading them and then bringing them back — like at a library. Rebecca George has become accustomed to such irritations as a co-owner of Volumes Bookcafe, an independent bookstore with shops in Wicker Park and downtown.But those didn’t drive George, 42, to post a gripe on Twitter, a tweet that had generated 5.3 million views... + full article



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