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Originally Posted by raulf
I don't see much future (or sense) in that. Why bother walking / driving / riding the subway to the nearest bookshop with a nice, friendly, chatty owner (avoiding the one with a tightass moron owner, that happens, sigh, to be closer, and the impersonal megabookstore that is closer, too) when you can do it faster & easier without leaving your living-room? and as freezing cold as it's been this week!
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Umm, because the bookstore has gourmet coffee, a fireplace, fancy paninis, and live poetry readings?
And it is sort of a social outlet as well as a shopping experience?
And they carry tins of
Republic of Tea?