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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I remember trading in books at the two used bookstores in town. Then one of them closed down and the other one burned down. That (and the slow deterioration of my motor skills) accelerated my switch to digital books.
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They're still going here - I can walk to two, and twenty minutes away on the bus are another three. The area I live in is the nearest we have to Berkeley or Greenwich Village - you'd probably be hard pressed to find a bookshop of any kind in the 'burbs.
Sadly Gould's Books Arcade is not what it was, on line order from a warehouse and pick up from small shop; the catalogue of what they had/have is not even 10% complete. Bob Gould died when he fell down the stairs after stacking books on the mezzanine floor of the original premises. His daughter and ex-wife carried on and the landlord kept the rent fixed at what became almost a peppercorn level. But eventually even that became unaffordable as they were swamped by torrents of Abbyyed and Tesseracted scans.
The old arcade had elevated pathways for Bob's cat:
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