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- verb To
shelve again. - verb To place back on a
shelf .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A random act of literacy certainly won't inconvenience some poor bookstore worker or librarian who would have to reshelve moved books, and it won't force them to endure the complaints of some pompous literati wannabe who can't find Maggie Atwood's (does anyone else think she looks shockingly like Sir John A Macdonald?) latest SF slum trip where it "ought" to be.
International Science Fiction Reshelving Day -- Good Idea or Bad Idea? 2009
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Now, when I go into stores, I reshelve a few copies so that other audiences may have at least a brief exposure to it before it gets reshelved to Urban Lit.
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For a moment I had the urge to simply reshelve the books myself.
June « 2010 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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Well, it may be classified as feminist literature, but if I were back in the bookshop, I think I would be obliged to reshelve it alongside Stephen King in the horror section.
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For a moment I had the urge to simply reshelve the books myself.
It’s a mystery? « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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For some light entertainment after long days of protest, a group stopped by local Barnes and Noble to reshelve -- and photograph -- Bush's Decision Points in a more appropriate place in the store.
Medea Benjamin: Protests at the Future Site of the George W. Bush Library Medea Benjamin 2010
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The other day I had to reshelve two dozen books that my son had wantonly pulled down, most of them volumes from college days.
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part III: Second Thoughts About Multitasking Marian Salzman 2010
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After he hangs up, I take the book and reshelve it in the Cooking section.
Boys and Girls Like You and Me Aryn Kyle 2010
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The other day I had to reshelve two dozen books that my son had wantonly pulled down, most of them volumes from college days.
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part III: Second Thoughts About Multitasking 2010
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The other day I had to reshelve two dozen books that my son had wantonly pulled down, most of them volumes from college days.
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part III: Second Thoughts About Multitasking 2010
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