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Bookshops should be unique and quirky. The moment you make it in to a business chain you lost something. I miss Europe b
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What, all of it? I can think of only one independent bookshop within 100km of my bit of rural France. FNAC (chain) 60 km and a single small independent 25km, and another chain that's mostly periodicals at 20km. The independent shop has books only in french. The only half decent public library is attached to a university in the same town as the FNAC. Thank you Gutenberg, Baen, and manybooks. Thank you also Amazon, even if I got my Paperwhite six months after the rest of you. Thank you mobileread for your library, for the pd books nicely formatted and the reading recommendations. Coffee in a bookshop? Dream on. Chairs in a bookshop? You jest, surely. If I am really lucky I might find a book with the cellophane removed.....