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JDK1962 · 03-31-2012, 10:46 AM

Bookstores have been my favorite places since I was 5 or so, and my mom and I would browse one while my brother and sister had their keyboard lessons in the nearby music shop. I still have some of the Peanuts books my mom bought me on those trips (I'm 50 now). I'll be very sad if/when they go the way of the record store (though I think Powell's, the Strand, W & G Foyle, etc. will always be around).

I love bookstores. I love being in my local independent bookstores (Denver's famous Tattered Cover among them), and I can be perfectly happy wandering around Barnes & Noble (and in the past, I was happy in Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, Atlantic, and Borders).

I love places with books, period...though I sometimes feel obligated to rescue good books from crappy thrift shops.

I love well-organized used bookshops with character. I love libraries. I have a very difficult time going to any of the above and not coming away with a book.

I love eBooks, too. I love browsing the eBook catalogs of the libraries I belong to, and finding new books. My Kindle 3, with its 600+ books, is probably my best friend. I love reading technical PDFs on my Android tablet, as well as the galleys of new fiction and non-fiction (from NetGalley).

Now that I think of it, there's very little about book and book-culture that I dislike. Except publishers who put out OCRed text that they don't proof. And the fact that it is generally publishers and not writers that get the lion's share of the money from the writer's work.

03-31-2012, 10:46 AM	#32
JDK1962 Groupie Posts: 154 Karma: 2054094 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Boulder, CO Device: Kindle Voyage, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (for PDFs)	Bookstores have been my favorite places since I was 5 or so, and my mom and I would browse one while my brother and sister had their keyboard lessons in the nearby music shop. I still have some of the Peanuts books my mom bought me on those trips (I'm 50 now). I'll be very sad if/when they go the way of the record store (though I think Powell's, the Strand, W & G Foyle, etc. will always be around). I love bookstores. I love being in my local independent bookstores (Denver's famous Tattered Cover among them), and I can be perfectly happy wandering around Barnes & Noble (and in the past, I was happy in Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, Atlantic, and Borders). I love places with books, period...though I sometimes feel obligated to rescue good books from crappy thrift shops. I love well-organized used bookshops with character. I love libraries. I have a very difficult time going to any of the above and not coming away with a book. I love eBooks, too. I love browsing the eBook catalogs of the libraries I belong to, and finding new books. My Kindle 3, with its 600+ books, is probably my best friend. I love reading technical PDFs on my Android tablet, as well as the galleys of new fiction and non-fiction (from NetGalley). Now that I think of it, there's very little about book and book-culture that I dislike. Except publishers who put out OCRed text that they don't proof. And the fact that it is generally publishers and not writers that get the lion's share of the money from the writer's work.