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Old 11-15-2019, 06:14 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Nope. I just don’t read physical books anymore and don’t need to go to a bookstore to buy ebooks. We have a large Barnes and Noble and a very nice mom and pop book store in our town.
I simply meant, on purely logical reasoning, that those places must not have enough attractiveness for you to give you a massive drive to visit them more often. (Even if you read 99.9% on tablets et similia.)

I implied that it could probably change (it should, logically) if the place had you miss it.

I wrote that to express in the background that I know places (yes, I mean a bookstore) without which life would not be worth living - places which I visit for satisfaction, not just for commerce.

...Of course, that «if the place had you miss it» is a dangerous area. What I meant is: professionalism, abundance of the collection, proper organization of it, appropriateness of the environment etc. Dangerous area, as in the current times of crumbling foundations of civilization very often the intrusion of dumb marketing introduces changes that attract """casual""" buyers and spoil it for the genuine user or enthusiast ("Will not you eat my food? I dumped a truckload of appetizers on it!" - "Will you not come to my restaurant? I started playing loud club music in it!" - "Will not you buy my car? I put the Internet in it!" - "Will not you buy my item? I placed flashing LEDs on it!" - "Why are you running hastily towards the horizon?"). I am not writing «attractive» meaning the cheap way.

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