"It is hardly medieval..." he replied with a glance in her direction. "It is old fashioned, I am sure, to what you are accustomed to but it can hardly be equated to being medieval" he paused. "If you truly do wish to start today, you can familiarise yourself with the record books. And once you have understood them, I would like you to organise our new stock. Two boxes of second hand books arrived today. A charitable donation. Most of them are old pieces of fiction, not rare enough to go into the other room" he explained.
The phone rang and with a slight sigh, he picked it up and began to write things down in a notepad by the cash register.