It's a bookstore story I last visited. / photographysteemCreated with Sketch.

in life •  8 years ago  (edited)


I went to a book store which will be closed their business at the end of this month. According to a report, people don't go to a bookstore to buy a book any more as I used to. People buy a book or just try to get what they want to know on the internet. I also usually do these days. The reasons that people need to buy a book at a bookstore decreased in the digital era. I heard the book store opened before 2006. I don't have a memory about the bookstore. I just stopped by the bookstore with my friend only a few times when I visited his house. He remembers that he went to the bookstore to buy reference books in high school. When I went there, I saw many empty book shelves already. There was a sale message in the book store. It looked like useless. Many people are still reading books and talking in a reading place. The figure people are looking a book seemed an illusion in my eyes. I pushed the shutter of my camera as I wanted to grab the moment. 


                    



                    


I know I now live in the digital era, but I sometimes miss the analogue era. There was a warmhearted feeling,  a slow life and a rude style in writing. I'm not skeptical for a digital era. I just miss something from the analogue era because I still like a book at the bookstore and the smell of printouts than a digital book. Walk to a bookstore, choose a book with the smell, read a book for a while and go out of the bookstore holding a paper bag. That was my favorite book shopping.


                    

There was a cafe in the center of the bookstore. 





I bought some books including two coloring books in order to remember the day I last visited the bookstore.


                    

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Beautiful story. It is a different world that we live in. Even big stores are hurting due to digital stores like Amazon and others.

Hi, Brad. I'm glad you have a similar thought with me.

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