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BY ASIA ARMOUR
Kaboom’s bookshelves are organized by the last name of authors.
Dee Dillman (left) and John Dillman (right) have owned the Woodland Heights bookstore for nearly 20 years.
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Kaboom Books enriches Woodland Heights There’s only one way to amass 135,000 books, said John Dillman, co-owner of Kaboom Books in the Woodland Heights neighborhood—“one by one.” John Dillman and his wife, Dee Dillman, estab- lished the used bookstore in June 2007. How we got here To transfer their customers from a temporary
The Woodland Heights bookstore has around 135,000 used books for sale.
‘P’s’ out of the ction alphabet over there. So if people were looking for Proust or something like that, [they’d] have to come over here.” What they o er Kaboom’s bookshelves are stacked ten rows and higher and divided in more than 84 subsections. Why it matters Though Kaboom Books is a small business, it serves the surrounding Houston neighborhood as a “social good,” simply because of the ideas that are shared between pages, John Dillman said. “The ideas that are inculcated in the books are always worthwhile,” he said.
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location on Studewood to the permanent space on Houston Avenue, they removed every ction title that started with the letter ‘P’ from the old shop to the new one. “I said that it was in homage to Georges Perec, the French writer who wrote [‘La Disparition’], in which he did not use the letter E at all,” John Dillman said. “So what I did was I took all of the
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