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I do miss browsing in bookstores. We had so many here in the city. We still have the Strand, a few Barnes & Noble and Shakespeare & Company. I'm sure there are a few other independent book stores. The only book store close by is an Amazon one. B&N closed the one that was an easy walk. In 2011 I worked next to one one in east midtown and often went in there.
I have so many books that I have not read, so I am unlikely to buy any books. My apartment is mall. I used to have stacks of books on the floor around the sofa, but I did a purge in 2008.
I also miss browsing music CD stores: Tower Records and J&R. I have recently heard that there are quite a few vinyl record stores, but I got rid of most of my LPs and the turntable (which no longer worked several years after I stopped using it). I have so many CDs, mostly in a tall revolving 4-sided tower.
After I started reading e-books, i was still going to book stores, but it made me a little sad that I didn't want to buy paper books. My place is so full of them.
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