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Originally Posted by forcheville
As far as paper books are concerned a bricks and mortar bookshop is worth supporting if its staff are friendly and helpful and their collection is good, or if it is merely the sort of place where you find books you didn't know you wanted until you saw them, ie a shop with a good back-catalogue.
Few Australian retail bookshops make the cut, although the best on both counts is Glebebooks in Sydney. I have no sympathy for the big chains, but plenty for small booksellers and good used book shops.
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I quite agree with you about Gleebooks in Glebe Point Road, Sydney. Abbey Book Shop in the city is good for foreign language books too. These are the brick and mortar bookshops that we should definitely support. Though I no longer live in Sydney, I wish them a long and happy continuation of what they have been doing.