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Old 07-11-2012, 12:37 AM   #26
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During my time in Tokyo, I worked around this issue by adopting what many people did -- 立ち読み.
First, these days they are wrapped in plastic, secondly, kind of hard to do with eBooks.

For those that don't read Japanese 立ち読み reads "tachiyomi" and is a Japanese custom of hanging around book stores and reading while standing there, used to be very popular, especially the Lolita section.
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