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Video: The most interesting bookstores
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who now goes to libraries when all the necessary literature can be downloaded on the Internet as text or audiobooks, or, in extreme cases, can be bought in a book supermarket?
Each of us, I believe, has our own weaknesses, as well as proven places where you can from time to time replenish the assortment of these very "weaknesses". Someone destroys the shelves in stores with Feng Shui tricks, give someone a beautiful high-quality stationery, and others by the ears cannot be pulled from showcases with devices for computers and other equipment. But there are also people who love to wander through bookstores, looking at beautiful volumes in new colorful covers, leafing through pages that smell of ink on smooth high-quality paper, and cannot decide which books from that large pile of selected volumes to take home. What a great culture shock a print fan would get if they had a chance to visit one of these stores:
Selexyz Bookstore
"Selexyz Bookstore" in the Netherlands
And inside there is a huge coffee room
"Shakespeare & Company"
The famous "Shakespeare & Company" store in Paris
The Academic Bookstore
"The Academic Bookstore" (Akateeminen Kirjakauppa), one of the largest book supermarkets in Europe. Designer - Alvar Aalto.
The Lello
Bookstore "The Lello" in Portugal. Opened in 1906 and since then it is considered one of the most beautiful not only in Portugal, but in the whole world. Designer - Xavier Esteves.
El Ateneo bookstore
And this is how the "El Ateneo bookstore" in Buenos Aires looks like.
To be honest, I, like many of you, prefer to read books from the monitor screen. But who knows, maybe we would have to reconsider this decision if bookstores greeted us with the same magnificence as in these photos!
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