A while back I wrote about stealth — in particular about a sculptor of paper dragons leaving works of art in libraries around the UK. I also mentioned a few of my own stealth projects.
Here is a stealth project I haven’t yet tried. It requires a camera. The idea is to move a book in bookstore to a shelf that you think suits the topic better, then take a picture of what you have done and post it to the “reshelving” group on Flickr. For example, an especially opaque tax-preparation book might go in the poetry section. A wildly imagined novel about, say, Jane Austen could get moved to biography. And a nonfiction book by a politician you don’t admire could be moved to the fantasy section.
You probably don’t want to mess things up in libraries, but just one book in bookstore … how bad can it be? Come to think of it, when my friend Paul Nagel’s biography of John Quincy Adams kept being put in a less prominent location than David McCollough’s book on John Adams, a malignant spirit took hold of me every time I entered that shop, and by the time I left, the Nagel cover was facing outward on the top shelf.
Even if you don’t sign up to post stealth photos of reshelved books, at least take a look at the Ministry of Reshelving site here.
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For some reason your blog posts aren’t showing up on my LJ feed right now. How frustrating: I’ve missed lots.
This is an excellent idea; I’ll have to check out the Flickr group to see some of the ones people have done. Though maybe one should then put the book back… (thinking of the poor bookstore employees…)
You are thoughtful. That is why I thought one should rule libraries out. The poor volunteers if books were tucked all over!