(November 17, 2013 at 5:01 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Powells here in Portland is a city treasure and is going strong.Morgan, you lucky dog. I have been to this bookstore (even though I'm from Texas, I have friends in civilized lands) and it made me cream my pants.
If bookstores die, I think I'll die with them. I guess I'm a Luddite, but I just can't do the Kindle. I don't have anything against it; I just can't do it. I LOVE books. I love the different weights and the expectations they bring - a slim volume vs a fat one. I love the smell of the pages. I love dogearing pages. I love rereading a favorite book and seeing my old dogears. I love getting a GREAT book and passing it on to friends, and knowing they'll pass it on, and so forth. I love blurbs and cover art. I love reading in the bathtub and dropping my book in the water and swearing and then having it get all fat as it dries.
I don't think I could survive the loss of the book.
