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100			_aDeutsch, Jeff
245			_aIn Praise of Good Bookstores
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c2022 _aNew Jersey :
300			_a200 p. ; _c21 cm
365			_b19.95 _cUSD _d85.90
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aBooks, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense of serious bookstores, but more importantly it is a paean to the spaces that support them; the experience of readers as they engage with the books, the stacks, and each other; and the particular community created by the presence of such an institution. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller and his particular experience at Sem Co-op, Deutsch aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring
650			_aBookseller
650			_aOrthodox Jew
650			_aBrowsing
650			_aSelf-reflection
650			_aCo-op Bookstores
650			_aHeritage
650			_aBook classification
650			_aRanganathan
650			_aLibrarians
650			_aPublishers
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