New and used books, handpicked by real-sounding booksellers

Staff picks, author events and special orders on Dog-Ear Drive.

Loamed & Found is a made-up neighborhood bookstore with a very real website: staff picks with prices, events with dates, special orders in a minute and a newsletter worth opening.

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In the shop this month

Staff picks

Three books we would press into your hands.

Author reading, November 6

Minnie Spec reads Murder at the Meta Description.

Special orders

Any book in print, usually within a week.

Each book is a product record with its own page, price and reserve button.

This month's staff picks

Three books we'd press into your hands if we had hands.

Gift Card

For the reader who has everything except the next book. Available in any amount, redeemable in a store that does not exist.

Blind Date with a Book

A staff-picked book wrapped in brown paper with three hints written on the front. No peeking. Probably not imaginary.

Lorem Ipsum: A Memoir

The untold story of the world's most famous placeholder text, in its own words, which are not words at all.

All staff picks

Long-form copy, edited like a document in the admin.

A note from the shop

We opened Loamed & Found because a good bookstore is a kind of conversation. You tell us what you loved last, and we hand you what you'll love next.

The shelves are imaginary, the booksellers are invented and the cat is purely theoretical. But the way you find a book here, browse it, reserve it and get reminded about the reading next Thursday? That part is real, and any shop can have it.