On: How does an independent bookstore survive for 90 y...

[ghaff]

With the exception of books that are really about the appearance perhaps, it's not like browsing a book in a bookstore for a few minutes tells you all that much. You're basically dealing with the marketing (like the cover and the blurb) at that point. Probably better to deal with online reviews however imperfect.

I still appreciate the experience every now and then but, really, I don't have a lot of reason to buy from bookstores much of the time.

[rufus_foreman → ghaff]

Well to take the other side, I was a kid. The way that you would discover things, bookstores were a part of that.

But I don't have to discover things now. I get exactly what I want. There's no underground.

The things I would have had to seek out now get delivered by Amazon.

That world is over.

Is the new world better?

For purposes of finding books, oh hell yeah.