Places That Smell Like Coffee

Create Regulars

Improve A Neighborhood

Improve By Being Nearby

Improve Their Surroundings

Invite Return

Invite Return Visits

Make A Place Feel Human

Make Scale Human

Reward Curiosity

Reward Familiarity

Reward Wandering

Turn Space Into Memory

bookstore

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dad joke

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politics

Corona Virus

mystery

library

procrastination

serial killer

hoarding

is a business that does not just sell a man twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - it sells him a whole new life... love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

is a warehouse of explosives, with shelves ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

is a sturdy reminder there are good things in this world.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The turnover of the bookstores is a damn barometer for the society.

bookstore, n.All

bookstore