All Ears Audiobooks discussion

Hi everyone. Sorry I've been very quiet in this group recently. As many of you know this group was originally formed to connect members of our San Jose, California store. I have always loved it when people exchange their excitement about a certain book or narrator in the store and wanted to recreate it in a virtual world. And when people joined from outside our local community - even from as far away as Colorado or South Africa, I was thrilled.

Well, one reason I have been virtually absent is that I have been physically swamped. Our San Jose store is closing and we will be moving to a different location, Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. It's exciting and fun to be part of a bookstore that sells print books and to find new people to connect with over books. I will try and share stories about our journey and I will post more reviews and discussions. Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

This is so exciting! I hope your new home works out even better than you hope! All the best!

The Colorado contingent :)

Good luck! The other Colorado contingent.

Just love the support from you Coloradians!

Hey Julie,

Wish you and Lily the best with your new endeavors in Menlo Park, but I'll miss both of you and the entire staff. I'll do my best to drop by at your new location once you are situated there in September. Good luck!!!

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the kind words. Looking forward to catching up with you. I hope you're listening to some good books while you are training for your long distance events. And welcome to goodreads!

I'm sorry to hear you're leaving your old location, but I'm very excited about it! You're easier for me to visit at Kepler's...and the odd thing is, I hadn't heard anything about audiobooks in their 2020 plan, so I'm happy. I will do my best to be at your Moving Sale and I look forward to your re-opening in Menlo Park. Good luck!

Hi Dawn,

I'm so glad that you're keeping current with Kepler's. So much going on right now with the Kepler's 2020 program. Praveen Madan is an amazing leader and has many great ideas on Kepler's transformation. Lilly and I really need to add an audiobook blog to their website, but we are currently swamped with the move. We'll send out an announcement when we're up there - it's looking to be the end of August, early September.

Hi Julie,

You are welcome! I have been a Goodreads member for a some time now, but wasn't as active as I should have been though :)

I came to the store this afternoon and Michael was there. I picked a couple books before I took off for a short trip. Hopefully, I'll see you at least once before you move to Menlo Park. I just got done with another season with Team-in-Training. I walked the full marathon distance in San Luis Obispo which took me 8 hours to finish the course. I totally loved it, let me tell you :) Have a good weekend!

Hi Julie! An audiobook blog sounds wonderful! If you need any help packing up the store after the sale, please let me know. I'm happy to help.
September sounds like a good opening time. Do you know where All Ears will be located inside Kepler's yet?

Dawn wrote: "Hi Julie! An audiobook blog sounds wonderful! If you need any help packing up the store after the sale, please let me know. I'm happy to help.
September sounds like a good opening time. Do you kno..."

So glad you like the idea of the blog. We'd love to set it up so that members can post their reviews or comment on other reviews - have some of that great dialog that occurs in the store, but online!

We aren't sure of our exact location within the store. The original plan was that as part of the Kepler's 2020 project, there would be big remodel of the store, but that has been postponed. There is going to be a Future Search conference for Kepler's 'Reinventing the Community Bookstore: Kepler's, the Next Chapter' in July, and the thought is to wait until that is complete before moving everything around in the store. There is a blog that has been started to describe the conference - http://www.keplers2020.com/blog.html. It's very exciting. I'm on the steering committee and we're inviting members from all different parts of the book industry - authors, publishers, booksellers, ebook vendors - it will be amazing to get everyone together to reinvent bookselling and bookstores for the future. That and closing up our El Paseo location is keeping us busy!

Will you keep the same hours at El Paseo during your closing sale?

Hi Dawn,

Sorry for the late reply - we've been burning the midnight oil getting ready! Yes - same hours, 10 -8, Monday through Saturday. But since I got to meet you at the store on Thursday, you probably already figured that out. Wow - you are an amazing reader, not only in the quantity of books you read, but in the diversity of style. Keep on listening!

Take care,

Julie

Hey Julie!!! I am really going to miss the store. It was really sad to bring back my last rentals on Tuesday. I had hoped to talk to both you and Lily, but you were both busy with customers. I wish you both the best of luck in the new location and hope to keep up with you here on Goodreads. If you do start a blog, let us know. :)