geertcoster said 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Just come back from staying with my wife’s family in Wales and helping her with some research work for her master in social sciences. Yes, it was very much a working holiday but we were going to visit Hay-on-Wye which I visited two years ago for the first time. Then there were still an enormous amount of books being sold and bought. This year I saw and heard from the locals that the tourists don’t buy as much any more. I’m sure that it’s more the recession hitting hard instead of the people switching to buying books on the internet. For the real reader there’s after all no bigger joy that holding a very old and interesting book in ones hand. I can still remember buying a little bundle and first edition of collected poems by Dorothy Parker about ten years ago in the Dutch book village of Bredevoort. Well now, where are those cats that were sitting in Hay’s Booth’s bookshop. They’re back home because they were only in the bookshop because of moving house. Too bad, I thought, because I really missed seeing those old cats laying in front of filled bookshelves. But not as much as the books! The shelves weren’t full any more either.
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