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Originally Posted by frahse
This is GREAT!
(from the NY Times this morning.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/o...bookstore.html
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By Ezra Klein
Opinion Columnist
I remember when Barnes & Noble first opened in my hometown. Before that, we had a cramped Crown Books, and some lovely, but limited, libraries. Barnes & Noble was a revelation. There was something wondrous about a room with that many books, each of them a doorway to unknown worlds, ideas and lives. That’s still the feeling, for me, of walking into a great bookstore: limitlessness."
Marvelous!!! |
Why does that quote remind me of “You’ve got Mail”?
Did any of the Crown Books staff end up helping people to find books in B&N?. Or is B&N like Eason’s here in Limerick now, less than 1/2 is actual books. I remember even 20 years ago Easons was mostly books. I think 50 years ago in Belfast they were entirely books.