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In reply to the discussion: Tampa Bay Times Bill Maxwell laments "slow death of bookstores." I'm with him on that. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)We have the chain Half Price Bookstores here, which I think is doing fine. The Strand in New York is doing okay. You can order from both online, or go to the mortar stores.
Like you, I have a lot of hard copy books. Unlike you, I don't give them away, although I did some a few years ago to Half Price Bookstore.
I love hard copy books, as do some of my friends, although we have Kindles, too. I love that I still have that biography I bought decades ago about Winston Churchill. It didn't evaporate in a cloud. It's still there. As are my other biographies - Shirley Maclaine, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, etc. I refer to those old books occasionally.
Once I opened an old book of a collection of Shakespeare stories. I got it from my mother or brother, but didn't recall where it came from originally. There, on the inside of the cover, was my mother's signature with her full name and date. It had been my mother's book in elementary school in the 1940s. You won't get THAT on Kindle.
One of my Bibles....it zips and had belonged to my grandmother in the early 20th Century.
My books...I write in the them, underline in them. I keep the good ones. I really should throw out the ones I know I'll never look at again. Time to go to Half Price Bookstore again, I think, and recycle.