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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
It's not the death of internet stores, antiquarian book stores, antique shops or anything else. There's still enough of us who appreciate a nice shop with nice people, being able to see and feel the goods and building up a relationship with the owner. That kind of thing's nice.
Some businesses fall and fail, but mostly things just carry on.
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See, I assumed that the hallmarks of antiquarian book stores were because of the internet. But apparently not. Apparently, according to elder book-lovers I know, those sorts of stores have always been patronised by slightly shifty looking, possibly piss-stained corduroy types and have always had a chap who, worryingly, actually
is either Manny or Bernard from Black Books, but older and more strange.