Originally Posted by elphenor

I think it's weird how big bookstores are still doing fine everywhere I've been has a giant two story Barnes 'n' Nobles that's packed with customers buying not just classics but new releases of various genres. $12 a book.


Yet record stores are basically tiny thrift stores

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.