Dwindle

[essentialsaltes]

Dutton's is going, and now the word is that Acres of Books is on its way out. Now, I'll cop to the fact that in my many visits to the million plus books at Acres of Books, I think I've only come away with one pathetic book lauding the importance of the Great Pyramid in evaluating human history. Nevertheless, it is another icon of used book-dom in the greater LA area, and its passing leaves the number of options... at a ridiculously small number. The Change of Hobbit, Dangerous Visions, Flights of Fantasy, Paperback Trader, Hunter's Books... all receding in the mists of time. Like tears in rain. Time to die.

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[zorker.livejournal.com]

I get sad every time another used book store closes. It's just too easy for people to go online and order stuff now, and the used book stores end up in areas with low rent and low foot traffic. I try to go to a used book store whenever I am looking for something before I look online. Since I work in Burbank, I go to Movie World (which combined with the other used bookstore down the street and has tons of old SF paperbacks), Bookfellows (for any more obscure SF stuff), and I've looked in the store across the street from Bookfellows. It's sad though. I remember as a kid going down to the Burbank Media center area before they gentrified it and shopping at all the used book stores there, but I've watched them close one by one till there's only the one left.