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Choosing the bookstore's name

I chose the name the last bookstore because at the time Porter's was going out of business and a lot of other little bookstores were going out of business and it was just in the...

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: Inside The Last BookstoreSubtitles: en

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I chose the name the last bookstore

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because at the time Porter's was going

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out of business and a lot of other

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little bookstores were going out of

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business and it was just in the news a

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lot

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there's press about books going away and

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you know ebooks taking over but people

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just don't like to lose something that

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they've loved for centuries I think that

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the digital age has made print books

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more popular in a weird way it just made

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everyone come out of the woodwork who

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really wants to see books survived and

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it's created quite a bit of loyalty I

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think among people who really love books

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some people prefer physical tactile

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objects and some people prefer clicking

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a button and having something

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instantaneously there's room for both I

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think I hope

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all right I'm gonna put my shoes on

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