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What Libraries Can (Still) Do

Librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” Knowledge in physical form needs to be preserved and curated. But with digital information pouring into iPhones and Kindles in petabytes, libraries need to rethink old habits. They cannot collect everything, or even a small fraction of everything.

Bookstore Now Accepts Paypal!

You can now use Paypal when shopping at the Acres U.S.A. bookstore!

You could live and work in this historic bookstore for $1.5M

Originally constructed in 1926, the listing includes a three-bedroom apartment upstairs and a light-filled bookstore on the main floor.

Which Brooklyn bookstore are you? Take this quiz and see

Are you chaotic and charming, like Spoonbill & Sugartown? Or reserved and introspective, like Community Bookstore? Find out in our handy (and binding) quiz.

It's Independent Bookstore Day—Here Are 20 Indie Shops You Can Visit Now

Quiz: What kind of bookstore cat are you?

Cats are the ideal animals to help run your friendly, local bookstore: they are selective, loyal, and highly discerning when it comes to literature. Don’t believe us? Just check out these par…

Printed Matter Is the CBGB of Indie Bookstores—Don’t Let It Die

Get your fill of photocopied anarchist periodicals while they’re hot.

A bookstore that dwells in darkness, literally.

How does one browse in a dark bookstore? Picture row upon row of faced-out books lit like tiny billboards floating in an inky black room, small candle lit café tables as little islands of light bet…

Support your indie bookstore!

Local bookstores keep our literary culture alive. This holiday season, remember where you spend your money matters

This Woman Opened a Bookstore and Drove It Across the Country

Step into Saint Rita's Amazing Traveling Bookstore!

Quiz: Which independent Berkeley bookstore are you?

Have you been dying to know which carefully curated, charmingly cluttered, heroically embattled-in-a-possibly-futile-but-proud-fight-against-Amazon-and-Kindles, independent Berkeley bookstore best describes your personality? Then this is the quiz for you! Image Source: Thomas Hawk via Creative Commons Contact Miya Singer at msinger@dailycal.org.

Quiz For Dixie Book Lovers: Which Southern Indie Bookstore Are You?

Take our quiz to find out which Southern indie bookstore most fits your personality, across the southern states from Florida to Tennesse!

The novel ideas that are keeping The Last Bookstore afloat

The Last Bookstore, which is known for its “Instagram-worthy” displays and whimsical labyrinths of bookshelves, used to have thousands of tourists cycle through each weekend.

Open Your Dream Bookstore And We'll Tell You Which Book To Read Next

Bookstore Chain Helps You Sleep With Your Favorite Book Characters

Books? Actual printed books? People still buy those things? Apparently so. Otherwise this ACW Grey-created campaign for Israeli bookstore chain Steimatzky is a total waste of money.

The Future College Bookstore: Leave The Books, Take The Panini

The campus bookstore is no longer the place you go to buy textbooks once a semester. Its new incarnation is part of the changing landscape of what higher education offers students.

10 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores

Jen Campbell, who works at a bookstore in London, heard so many crazy things in her line of business that she decided to compile the funniest and most outrageous ones into a book: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores. Below, a sampling of some of the most outlandish things heard at Campbell’s bookstore and shops [...]