Posted on 03/18/2018 7:02:24 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Booklovers throughout California are lamenting the news that Caravan Book Store shut its doors for good last Tuesday. The shop, owned by 72-year-old Leonard Bernstein, had been a fixture of Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles since it opened in May of 1954.
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Legendary Los Angeles Bookstore Closes.
Nationwide survey shows that a growing and already large percentage of adults never have read a complete book after high school.(Pick some number that sounds high - that will be about right.) I also lament this change, but I can’t feign surprise.
The purpose of the education system is to give students a life-long loathing of learning.
Thanks WilliamIII.
I would imagine if I owned a book store, I would be thanking the Lord daily that it is still open. Book stores is pretty much 20th century. They need to close libraries too. Not needed anymore. Waste of tax payers money.
They tried. Instead I ended up loathing school and loving books. Power to the autodidact!
Yeah, I know I am living in a time where more information is available than ever before in history, but I still am sentimental about physical books.
98% oh high school graduates have never read a book and will never read a book because they can’t read!
The purpose of the education system is to give students a life-long loathing of learning.
The city I live in doesn’t have a bookstore of any type and it’s a city of 70,000+ people. I have to go 25 miles to Half-price Books. I order most of my books online, but still enjoy a good bookstore. I still can’t do E-books at least for recreational reading, they are ok for textbooks and instructional texts, but for all else, I prefer the paper versions.
That should be the goal, the results say it isn’t.
I live in a metropolitan area of 10 million people. Until a few years ago, there was a Borders bookstore within walking distance of my home and another within easy driving distance. Now, the nearest bookstore, a Barnes and Noble, is six miles away, and if that chain goes under, the nearest bookstore will be 40 miles away. And I'm not the only one who still reads books. These stores are busy, and often crowded.
The demise of bookstores is a travesty. I don't like e-books because they hurt my eyes, and I don't like to order stuff online--you have to wait for your merchandise, and then porch pirates might beat you to it.
Also with ordering books online is that you don’t get what you ordered. That has happened to me. Another time I received a defective product. I do my best to not order them online.
Well at least Caravan Books can say they were never looted in a riot.
Something that goes with this is that many have accumulated quite a collection of books over their lifetimes, and the books now have little value and almost no one wants them, even for free.
They never break.
Every year I make sure to hit the library book sale and get a bag of books for five bucks.
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