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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
Unfortunately, the curation aspect of a bookstore means that they stock the books they want to sell me, not necessarily the books I want to buy.
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Manifestly true for the Big Box Bookstores. But not at all true of the good independent bookstores - Kramer's in Washington DC, Tattered Pages in Denver, Unabridged Books in Chicago.
Obviously they aren't always going to have the specific book you want, but my experience is that they have the books I didn't know I wanted. That is, they don't stock the books they think I ought to buy; they stock the books they think I ought to read.