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Parent Post: Where do people buy books?
goyim
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3/5/2025, 1:28:17 AM
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I miss book stores. They still exist but they are becoming obsolete. There used to be a book store down the street from me in a mini mall that I would walk over to and browse the books and occasionally come across some real gems. It's like a dream of mine to own a book store, the little old lady who ran this store just would sit and read or occasionally watch TV, unfortunately I don't think it'd be all that profitable, maybe if you can start with a successful online bookselling business first you could open a store front that acts as a warehouse for your online store as well as a in person bookstore for the occasional window shopper, or curious passerby, or the small population of local customers who enjoy the physical copy of books, and the physical journey of going and browsing book shelves for that one special book. But it could double as like a coffee shop and cafe/lounge, sometying trendy to attract the hipsters who want to appear educated and cultured, but those customers that you'll attract will mostly only buy coffee and use your free wifi opposed to ever buying a book. If you are ever in CT and love the book store aesthetic and experience, theres a massive book store that has also attracted visitors due to its sheer size, it's called the book barn and consists of like 4 separate buildings on the several acre property, and to get to each section of books you get to travel outside in wooded, buetiful new England nature, one of the properties is basically an entire house that has been turned into a book store, with both upstairs and down stairs open to the public to explore. Its really neat, and if you want to get lost searching book shelves all day, this is the place, you never know what youll find.
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maze
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3/5/2025, 1:51:54 AM
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That book barn sounds AWESOME!!, lol I too miss the little used book stores. Here in Alberta we used to have a chain of used book stores called wee book inn. They all had resident cats, usually friendly. And you could bring in old books and usually get a bring two, get one deal. But think only a single store is left. All the single ones died out. Pretty sure people just scoop up the books at value village and sell them on amazon now.
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goyim
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3/5/2025, 2:31:47 PM
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Oh it is, you should look it up on Google, theres photos and reviews and it's really a awesome surviving relic of a book store. Deffinetly worth visiting if your a fan off offbeat roadside attractions and bookstores
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goyim
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3/5/2025, 3:41:37 PM
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 wanted to provide you with a visual of the book barn, I know you said you live in Canada but Connecticut isn't toooo far from the Canadian border. If you happen to ever be here do check it out. This gives you an idea just how large the collection of books are, the have the main building as well as outdoor sheds, bookshelves with overhangs, so you explore the store mostly outdoors, and they have goats. It's really a lovely shop
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