I'm weeding the romance novels for condition and these things are so fragile I swear it'll have only 7 circulations and the spine will be unreadable and there will be pages falling out and chips off the cover. It's like they're printed on tissues. And they're all so similar. Dukes. Cowboys. Christmas. Cowboys on Christmas. Christmas with the Duke. The Duke of Cowboys. The Cowboy Christmas with the Duke. One of them is literally called The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo.
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Heh, way back in the day when I worked at Waldenbooks, those romance novels (the mostly-Harlequin ones with the covers color-coded by kink) were treated like magazines - they came in every two weeks and got thrown out if they didn't sell in a month, because there were always new ones coming in.
And they sold, in droves, to people with reams of the $5 coupons that you got for every $100 you spent with your Waldenbooks membership. Dunno if they ever got re-read, though.
Oh I mean they're certainly popular here too but since it's a library they're expected to survive at least 25 circulations, ideally at least 50 circulations.
If you ever come across any written by Mollie Molay, she's my grandpa's cousin, and she wrote a bunch of Harlequin romance novels.