East Bay Booksellers / Diesel

Introducing Stationery Club! A subscription service for lovers of pens, pencils and paper. Two years ago, we started bringing in stationery products with new e...nergy, things that excited us like heavy letterpress greeting cards from Oregon, needlepoint pens from Japan, journals hand painted in Des Moines and the softest writing paper we’ve ever used. These items always sparked conversations in the store - they felt good to hold and use and look at. Now, at the end of a long strange year and inspired by those in-store conversations that we miss so much, we are bringing in new products and we want to share them all with you! We are offering 3 boxes per year - January, May & October - for $100, media mail shipping included. Each box is hand picked and stylishly coordinated and will contain a mix of journals, writing utensils and accessories, paper products, greeting cards, and postcards. Boxes include a note with extras like personal product reviews, tips, tricks and general well wishes to our Stationery loving pals. The brands include: Blackwing Binderwork Kleid Stationery Leuchtturm Lamy Moglea Nuuna Ohto Paper-Oh Penco Rhodia Stalogy Tomoe River Paper Traveler’s Company Yellow Owl Workshop Click the post to sign up! #stationery

We can’t promise you won’t think about the election when you come in for by-appointment browsing, but it does have a sort of forest bathing effect being amongst the shelves & books.

DID YOU KNOW .... That you can book your socially-distanced browsing appointment any day of the week, from 11am to 6pm? (Also feel free to call us to make an ap...pointment.) https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=20654530 DID YOU KNOW ... That our ENTIRE stationery section is available online, at https://ebbstationery.com? All the cards, all the pens, the journals -- even some funky gifty items. DID YOU KNOW ... That we've added some new bells & whistles to our website to make it that much easier to browse from the comfort of your own home? (a) https://www.ebbooksellers.com/browse-our-displays & (b) https://www.ebbooksellers.com/stacks-virtual-browsing-magaz These are weird times. Like any good improvisation, we're trying to roll with things. Roll on, won't you, with us!

Independent bookstores across the country (indeed, the whole dang world) are at threat of being #BoxedOut by the likes of Amazon. Obviously, the danger to us is... a real one. But we also believe it is an even more fundamental danger to the country (& indeed, the whole dang world!). We're joining bookstores in the #BoxedOut campaign to underline *our* emergency, yes, but also to to underline the fact that a single corporation is literally profiting off a global pandemic ... while at the same time endangering its workers. We don't enjoy gaping loop-holes to avoid taxes. We don't have the government in each of our pockets. We don't control the internet's very infrastructure. We don't cooperate with ICE. Even at our worse, which we hope isn't often, we're better citizens, neighbors, & certainly booksellers than Amazon. We at EBB take a particular pride in treating our staff with respect & the transparency they deserve. We try to learn & become better from our imperfections. Are we being #BoxedOut? Yes ... but we also know pretty well how to kick the hell out of boxes to break them down. We could certainly use your help, though. #ShopIndie

Special alert! Hear ye, hear ye! Starting today, we're taking off our social-distancing bookselling training wheels, and we're no longer requiring a deposit! U...nchanged: you still have the concierge & non-concierge options! & we're also still limiting the number of reservations that can be made at any time. Fun bookselling for us! Safe book browsing for you. https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=20654530

Oh how we love beautiful books about books! courtesy of one of the contemporary design masters, Peter Mendelsund.

Once again, everything is happening all at once, isn't it? We all have our own ways of slowing down, but one of the greatest remains browsing the shelves of a bookstore. Schedule your time for in-store browsing today!

A little In Case You Missed It ....

Your direct link to booking an browsing appointment. We look forward to seeing you in the store.

We’re excited to introduce you to our own very own online stationery store, Marginalia! https://www.ebbstationery.com/

Hey everybody .... we have a treat we're so excited to show off to you later this week. In the meantime, we're still giddy about our new virtual browsing toy, Stacks.