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When I lived in the UK a couple of years back, I used to frequent 2nd hand bookstores and sometimes buy out of print books or old books I used to own and got for nostalgic reasons.
But since moving to Australia, I find even 2nd book stores are quite expensive and not really much cheaper at all than new pbooks.
I don't buy pbooks anymore any except in special circumstances, so I don't bother visiting bookstores much.
I still occasionally buy old or out of print books online via ebay, so if bookstores are using ebay and such, then I guess I'm supporting them in that way.
From time to time I visit a bookstore to see what they have but I guess I'm spoiled for choice with ebooks now.
I don't really want to dedicate much space for pbooks in my house anymore anyway.
I suppose it'd be sad to see physical bookstores disappear, but I guess I've moved on and unless they adapt to make going back interesting or worth it for me, I probably won't return.
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