NAgoyaBOOKCENTER Daily Report — June 26, 2026 (Fri) Rainy

My shifts are every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 13:00 to 19:00, so today I watched the World Cup match Japan vs Sweden at home in the morning before going out. I returned a book to the library, borrowed a picture book I had reserved, read it inside the library and returned it immediately (since it was raining and taking it home might make it wet), then went to work. The rain kept switching between light and heavy today, which is unfortunate for a street-level bookstore. Kissa River (喫茶リバー) also had few customers. There were no additional deliveries, so I printed this month’s book sales list and checked the inventory on the shelves. For items that have inventory data, there should be stock somewhere, so I searched around. There isn’t an obvious storage place, so some copies were hidden at the back of the shelves. I hid them myself, but that was a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy. Looking at the sales data, I found sales I had missed at the time, and I reconsidered whether to reorder them in bulk. I’d like to reorder everything that sold, but that would lead to excess inventory, so I’m cautious. Our shop set up a returns arrangement with Nippan last year, so in principle we can make returns, but the owner has never returned anything, and we’ve managed without returns so far — probably we won’t return items until we close the shop, I guess? ZINEs are almost all bought out, so inventory is increasing, and I’m a little worried about what to do next. In the evening, regular customer Chiharu came by. Chiharu plans to open a shopless bookstore in the near future, and today she brought a used comic she’d picked up as a gift. It was a manga anthology by Ako Mutsu, whose work I’ve been a fan of since my student days. Thanks! Next time I’m hoping for Yumiko Tabuchi. Chiharu was a baby when I was in university, so our conversations about favorite manga don’t really line up at all. Well, it’s almost closing time. The register was quiet again today, so I ended up buying one of the books I had been holding back.