bookends

[adrian_turtle]

I know this seems like a petty thing, in these parlous times, but I am having a hard time finding bookends. We are finally, finally getting all the books out of storage and sorted and on shelves and they might almost fit if we have enough bookends. (If you're going to do part of a shelf as 2 rows of paperbacks, that needs at least 1 bookend to keep the last ones from falling into the larger books that are going as single rows.)

Where can I find plain metal bookends, like the kind they use in libraries? I do NOT want to get them from Amazon, for political reasons. Neither do I want to get them from Target. Once, I might have tried Home Depot, but it turns out that they are cooperating with ICE in deeply distressing ways so I don't want to do business with them either. Etsy is generally recommended as an alternative to Amazon, but they just have decorative standalone bookends. Some of them are really pretty but they are too bulky for this purpose.

Comments

[otter]

Home Depot is also heavily supportive of Autism Speaks. Ugh. Do any of your local universities have re-use stores/sales? This is local to me. https://facilities.umn.edu/our-services/waste-recycling-reuse/reuse/reuse-program

[ethelmay]

thelibrarystore.com or Staples. Maybe Ikea.

[adrian_turtle]

I had not thought of those. I didn't even know the library store existed! Thank you.

[silveradept]

One of our big library vendors is Demco, and maybe they also sell to individuals as well. Or perhaps there's somewhere the local bookstore gets them from that you can tap into?