Sam's Club review: Standard regular-sized paperback books no longer carried.

I am absolutely furious about this! I just found out today that both Sam's Club and Walmart are ditching regular standard-sized paperback books—the kind that fit in your pocket, the affordable mass-market ones—from their stores entirely. This isn't some minor change; it's a slap in the face to real readers like me!

Over the last 23 years, I've religiously tracked every book I've read, and guess what? I've devoured 2,123 of those classic, regular-sized paperbacks. That's right—2,123 books! Crunch the numbers: that averages out to 92.3 books per year, year after year, without fail. And where did the vast majority of those come from? Over 90% straight from Sam's Club and Walmart shelves. I've easily poured close to $1,000—probably way more when you factor in inflation—into their registers just for books alone.

And that's not even the half of it! Every single time I grabbed a stack of paperbacks, I was also loading up on groceries, household stuff, snacks—you name it. Those book runs turned into full shopping trips that lined their pockets with way more than just book money. So now they're just going to casually toss aside a loyal, high-volume customer like me? Do they seriously want to kiss goodbye to every single dollar I spend in their stores, all because of one dedicated reader's habits? One shopper who actually shows up consistently?

This isn't just my personal rant—it's bigger than that. Pew Research has shown time and again that a huge chunk of Americans—around 65% of U.S. adults—still read printed books in a given year. That's millions of people who prefer the feel of real pages, not screens. Yet corporate decisions are wiping out the most accessible, cheapest way for everyday folks to get those books at the places they already shop.

This feels like pure greed and shortsighted nonsense. Mass-market paperbacks made reading affordable and impulse-friendly for generations, and now they're vanishing from the big-box spots that used to carry them everywhere. I'm beyond disappointed—I'm outraged. Walmart and Sam's Club, if you're listening: you're losing more than just a book buyer. You're losing someone who trusted you for decades and brought real money through your doors. Bring back the paperbacks, or watch loyal customers like me walk away for good!