Cortez writes “While I can understand the financial reasons, I’m going to miss them when they’re gone: New hi-tech world of bookshops, from BBC News.
Artist and antiquarian Graham Ovenden has spent a large part of his adult life rummaging in bookshops. Between the leaves of old books, he has found 19th century treasures like the earliest known photo of Lewis Carroll and the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. “Rossetti’s handwriting was quite broad and really rather handsome,” he said. However, the joy of coming upon a real treasure or merely whiling away an afternoon pottering in an old bookshop may some day be confined to the history books.”
Just don’t write off brick-and-mortar bookstores completely. If nothing else, they’ll survive the way that art galleries do today.
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