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bookstore tour
Jan. 14th, 2008 08:08 pmAP article on destination bookstores, ones worth your while to seek out if you're visiting the area. Rather than beginning by naming stores that should have been on the list, I'll relate my own encounters with their choices.
The article doesn't distinguish among used and new book stores. They serve quite different functions for a traveler. I will seek out even tiny and obscure used book stores on a trip, because you never know what you might find. (I once found Pat Murphy's The Shadow Hunter at a little all-pb store in the Willamette Valley for a buck.) Good new book stores are plentiful where I am, so I don't ordinarily hunt for new books on a trip, but the mark of a really great new book store is not just the size but the browsing quality: the selection of books on the shelves and on the display tables that you'd never have heard of if not for seeing them there. I've always been appreciative of this, and more so as it becomes rarer.
So here's their list, with the stores' web sites from the article:
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The article doesn't distinguish among used and new book stores. They serve quite different functions for a traveler. I will seek out even tiny and obscure used book stores on a trip, because you never know what you might find. (I once found Pat Murphy's The Shadow Hunter at a little all-pb store in the Willamette Valley for a buck.) Good new book stores are plentiful where I am, so I don't ordinarily hunt for new books on a trip, but the mark of a really great new book store is not just the size but the browsing quality: the selection of books on the shelves and on the display tables that you'd never have heard of if not for seeing them there. I've always been appreciative of this, and more so as it becomes rarer.
So here's their list, with the stores' web sites from the article:
( Read more... )
