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Originally Posted by radleyp
When I was growing up, bookstores did not serve coffee (there was a New Yorker cartoon when this first started, showing a man complaining to the store clerk, "What, no cafe latte and you call yourself a bookstore!") Bookstores sold books, period! Now a bookstore melds the book sales with the services of a library (you can sit and read!) and cafe, unthinkable two decades ago. And from what I see now, bookstores as we know them will either change or disappear: this is an effort at change though not, I think, a good one. Much better and simpler (and predicted some years ago) is providing a kiosk where you can download a book on the spot (understanding that you must have your reader with you).
And, please, those who do, stop using this idiotic term, "liseuse". I speak French as I do English, and I see absolutely no reason for it: it has no connection to any English word (and the English speaker has no idea how to pronounce it), it feminizes the device (because French imposes gender, though it could also have made it masculine), and the device was not invented in France.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
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Pardon me for breathin', Pilgrim. My diction is my choice. If I choose to use frimp or tanj, or Klono or liseuse, that's my business....