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Pretend book shopping.A reading pile made for the pretend world

Bored & Noble’s books are original fictional creations with their own titles, blurbs, covers and opening passages. Browse for the pleasure of finding a story before you decide to add it to the bag.

Open the shop in Empty

A browser game with imaginary money. JavaScript is needed to use the pretend PC.

What you can choose

Use the genre shelves or inspect an individual book and its available formats. The opening is a preview inside the game; a fictional purchase does not promise a real printed book or complete ebook download.

A few things to explore

46 items in this part of the game catalogue. These selections open their actual in-game pages.

Light Through Empty Shelves

Open in Empty

When the last bookshop in a coastal town sells its final copy, its owner keeps opening every morning anyway. A luminous novel about the shapes things leave behind.

Gone Parcel

Open in Empty

On the morning of their anniversary, Nick’s parcel vanishes from the doorstep. The tracking says delivered. The tracking is lying. Isn’t it?

It Ends With Unboxing

Open in Empty

Lily falls hard for the charming courier who always nearly arrives. A romance about knowing when to stop refreshing the tracking page.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Checkout

Open in Empty

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace distribution centre, Arthur Dent is rescued by a friend who works in fulfilment.

Atomic Hobbies

Open in Empty

A proven framework for starting one new hobby every day and finishing none of them. Over ten million copies started.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Nothing

Open in Empty

Master the four elements of good cooking, then the fifth: knowing when to just order something. Illustrated throughout.

After you have chosen

Review the item’s available options and quantity before fictional checkout. Ordinary retail parcels can be followed in Parcels and opened after delivery. Restaurant orders, pizza and vehicle purchases have their own flows; their shop guides explain what to expect.

Read the playing guide for the wallet, delivery speeds and local saved progress. About & privacy covers the parody and product-photo sources.

Another kind of browsing

Pizza

Build a pizza, right down to which half gets the olives

Food delivery

A menu, a basket and a very optimistic courier

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Pretend book shopping.A reading pile made for the pretend world

What you can choose

A few things to explore

Light Through Empty Shelves

Gone Parcel

It Ends With Unboxing

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Checkout

Atomic Hobbies

Salt, Fat, Acid, Nothing

After you have chosen

Another kind of browsing

Pizza →

Food delivery →

Pizza

Food delivery