{"id":526,"date":"2026-08-22T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shopvane.saifbrand.com\/books\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:30:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shopvane.saifbrand.com\/books\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-muted-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:0.75rem;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.18em;text-transform:uppercase\">Our story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A small bookshop that would rather sell you one book you finish than five you do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-524  alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shopvane.saifbrand.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-2.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of the books we are reading this month\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We opened in a room above a bakery with four shelves and a card reader. Everything on this site is chosen by two people who read it first, and the recommendations are ours rather than whichever publisher paid for the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-shopvane-card is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(1.453rem, 1.453rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.647), 2.4rem);font-weight:700;line-height:1.1\">4<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shelves, at the start<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We opened above a bakery with four shelves and a card reader. The shelves are still here.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-shopvane-card is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(1.453rem, 1.453rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.647), 2.4rem);font-weight:700;line-height:1.1\">2<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People who choose the stock<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not an algorithm, and not whichever publisher paid for the front table.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-shopvane-card is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(1.453rem, 1.453rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.647), 2.4rem);font-weight:700;line-height:1.1\">48h<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From order to doorstep<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Board-backed, corners intact, tracked from the moment it leaves us.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we care about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-shopvane-check\">\n\n<li>Every title read by one of us before it goes on the site<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Packed board-backed so the corners survive the post<\/li>\n\n\n<li>An honest answer when a book is not as good as its cover<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thirty day returns, no reason required<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-shopvane-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If a book is not worth finishing, it is not worth selling. That has cost us money and we would do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Nadia, co-founder<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we will not do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do not run fake countdowns, we do not inflate a price so we can discount it, and we will not recommend a book none of us has read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-525  size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shopvane.saifbrand.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/book-09.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Boats, by Arun Desai\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-color has-ink-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\">Not sure what to read next?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Tell us the last book you loved and why. We will send back three suggestions, none of them obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ink-color has-base-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\">Ask a bookseller<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our story A small bookshop that would rather sell you one book you finish than five you do not. 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