I don't like Ebooks. I only like books with paper, where you can turn pages.

Or try to smash a fly on the wall with one of them ebook readers. You do it once alright

I live in a one horse town the horse got up and left. I used to love to visit used book stores. Now I live in a town that doesn't have one.

At one time it did, my lovely lady felt much the same as catinidaho, she wanted the books to feel the pages as she turned them. Only the town is too small and the store closed from lack of business. So I bought her a Kindle Fire hoping she would find it a good replacement for what she couldn't get anymore. I was lucky in that she took to it like a duck to water. She was a reader and that was her chosen past time.

I bought her a new battery for it, it's still in it's packaging. She died of liver cancer before it was time to replace it.

What stunned me was after her passing. Her favourite author was Stephen King. He'd write a new book, she'd hear of it on the net, and would be on the look out after that for it to show up in some store before we moved here. She'd eventually find it on a book shelf. She'd look at it, come back, and never say anything about getting it. I'd know though and would tell her go get it, since I knew how much they meant to her.

During some of the clean out of her things, I found some of her hard back books I'd bought her. I chanced to open one and inside on the fly, was a little drawing she'd made of a flower and a thank you note for buying it for her. To this day, I have no clue how she knew I'd look there. I never bothered her things, they were hers and she deserved the right to privacy as all of us do.

I live in a little town with no book stores. There is a thrift store with a lot of books. I find some things there.

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I used to be into books an awful lot, even as a kid.
But since my neck / head injury I can only read if I use a stand, so for years I didn't read much.
Also because at some point my life was too busy.

I used to love coming across a Waterstones. But I've never looked for bookstores when on holiday.
Ifever I was in town with my kids to by them clothes and we came across a bookstore, they both grab my arms and drag me past it, haha. Neither of them likes reading.

These days I sometimes do read books again, but then it's a spiritual / energywork / psychology book, never fiction anymore. In a way reading an E-book is easier with my neck, provided it's on my PC, but to be honest, I also prefer real books.
I find it easier to quickly look something up in a real book as well.
And I love the feel and smell of paper. I'm very tactile :) If the paper is too smooth or doesn't smell nice, I don't like it so much, hihi.

Whenever I buy something, I first check Bookdepository. Or Ebay.

I love the books generally.
Because; i am prying, i love the learn, i ...

But I think the best of the food at there when i went to a where.

It depends.

If there is something unusual about a store, I do.

When I went to Portland OR, I made it a point to visit Powell's City of Books:

"Powell’s City of Books is the largest used and new bookstore in the world, occupying an entire city block and housing approximately one million books. Located in downtown Portland’s Pearl District, the City of Books has nine color-coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections, offering something for every interest, including an incredible selection of out-of-print and hard-to-find titles. Dozens of acclaimed writers, artists, and thinkers visit each month to read in the Basil Hallward Gallery (located upstairs in the Pearl Room), and a one-of-a-kind Rare Book Room draws bibliophiles from near and far to browse an impressive collection of autographed first editions and other collectible volumes."

I only buy used books now. New books are so expensive. When I go to a bookstore, which is rare, the first thing I do is go to the clearance section. I've found some really good deals there.

Genuine book stores, are becoming a
very rare find.

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They're having a tough time as many purchase online. And I think in general less people read books than in the past?
I hardly ever buy a book in a bookstore. I read mostly English books, stores haven't got these in stock and have to order them. Then I can just as easily get it online without having to drive into town 2x.
Plus, online is often a helluva lot cheaper.

Sorry for your lost, wow what a great memory to have.

Wow I been there , but didn't know all that about Powell's.

When I was around twenty, I used to visit Manchester a lot. It had some great independent book shops where you could find some amazing stuff. A few years later and I worked in a second hand book shop in Hull. Again, there was some great stuff. I found Captain Sir Richard Burton's 'Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca' there. A few years ago in Bray, Ireland I found a copy of 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante. These days though, most of the independent book shops here have been replaced by Waterstones.