What's most ridiculous about this is that Hay-on-Wye is full of exactly the sort of bookshops that will survive the advent of the eReader. They're distinctive, each tends to focus on a particular genre, and they're stuffed full of rare and out of print titles.
I have bought vanishingly few print books over the last four years, but 8 of them were bought in one go in a bookshop in Hay while I was at the Festival last year.
Graham
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