I picked up a great magazine at my local grocery store yesterday and am so enamored of it.  It is called ReadyMade and they appear to be doing a great job of connecting the content from print to online.  So much of what I saw and read was enlightening as to how to combine the new options with the old but I was most drawn to the Required Reading article right up front on page 10.  This is a brilliant idea, that with free online tools, can be easily replicated, packaged, and sold by indie bookstores in the south.

Basically, the idea is this:  Bookseller as bibliotherapist — all of us are looking out for ways to improve our lives, whether spiritually, emotionally, or physically and we readers intersect with stories and books that inspire or entertain or educate us.  So booksellers write book prescriptions – the right read for what ails you.

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Written by Melissa Goldstein Photography by Levi Brown