How would you describe your job to someone you just met?
Powell's has a massive selection of used books and I'm one of the people who buys them in. I look through what customers bring to sell and decide what to purchase based on sales history, stock numbers, and relevance. It's a mixture of data analysis, trend prediction, and general industry knowledge. I'm also on our inventory team, which means I often see the books I've bought multiple times as they make their way through our sorting carts and onto the shelves.
Last book you loved:
By the time this has published, my answer will have changed! Between our overstuffed shelves and the advance copies we get from publishers, I'm lucky enough to have a never-ending supply of reading material...