After winnowing out the first editions and rare and otherwise desirable books, the chaff is sent to the cellar or put out in the arcade, either on the central table, where there is an array of books for ten dollars or three dollars or five dollars on changing subjects (art, cooking, history, biography, mysteries, say), or in a pair of bookcases in back marked "Sale $1".
How can we make the slow, steady experience of reading a book desirable to a boy bombarded, if he's lucky, with so many other options, from the newest, such as iPods and the internet, to the stalwarts of TV and video games?
Last April, when Ms. Aghevli's daughter Kimi Aghevli and her fiancé, Ned Darrell, of Baltimore, began searching for a garden space for their June 2014 wedding, they found many desirable dates already booked.
If this is desirable, turn to the book.
Impossible — and not even desirable — to disassociate this book from the circumstances of its composition.
While faithfulness is admirable in a relationship, it's not always desirable when turning a book into a film.
She's collected more than $60,000 enough to quit one of her jobs, get surgery to fix her fucked-up teeth (which she says have prevented her from getting desirable work), write a book, or build a nonprofit that would help people in poverty.
It might be desirable to balance the books, but not on the backs of the working poor.
Bjorn Hanson, a hotel specialist at New York University, said the downturn had been hardest on hotels that got the overflow business when hotels in more desirable locations were fully booked.
It will also comprise Mr. Loomis's editing, as well as all the labor of copy editing, designing and producing, not to mention marketing and sales, that went into making it a desirable candidate for e-book distribution.
