I miss second-hand bookstores because you never know what gems you will find, but unless it's a specialist genre bookstore, I don't miss the wall-to-wall chick lit or best sellers. I find that general bookstores usually have minimal genre fiction and that tends to be new titles with little if any backlist. Even a specialist store often doesn't have the breadth I can find online.
Besides, now I've moved to a smallish market town, getting to bookstores is a pain.
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