Online bookstore
The online bookstore, though new to many of us in the last decade or so, is one of the finest creations, facilities, or what have you to exist. For reclusive people, for students, for big readers, or even for people looking for the perfect gift, the online bookstore saves time, saves money, saves social interaction with noisy, neglectful, or annoying people out there...saves one’s sanity, really.
Let me clarify. I go to XXX (well known, top selling bookstore in the city) brick and mortar store (which also has an online bookstore, but I am in a hurry. I have driven in rain and insane traffic, have limited time (as I am on a deadline), and have a definite title or set of titles in mind. I walk into the brightly lit store and head for the periodicals—seeking a magazine published in the UK. Seven people are in the aisle I need to access. Three are LAYING on the floor reading magazines they will not buy but will instead gunk up with their fingerprints, wrinkle with their greedy paws, and stain with their snot. The other four are standing around, one on a cell phone and others scratching bugs out of their hair, giggling over nudies, or just &$$#93%# standing…IN MY WAY. When did a store become a place to hang out, groom in, furtively steal FREE reading pleasures from, and impede actual shoppers with integrity in?
I hate the physical bookstore now, and go with only the online bookstore. (Did I need to say that?) The online bookstore not only offers the same items it offers if it has a physical sibling site but offers hard-to-find, hard to get at in the land store, and hard to remember titles.
I probably do not have to name the online bookstores any more than I had to name the one with all the losers, slackers, and nutcases, above, but if you need a nudge, here are my favorites:
Powells.com- One of the world’s largest bookstores. A city block long and stories high, when you go to the actual store in Oregon (which I wouldn’t mind doing, actually), they hand you a MAP…the store is so big and so full of millions of books.
Ebay.com – look for a title, using the search engine at EBay, or check out my favorite online bookstores, where vendors as far away from me (in the U. S.) as the UK ship within only a few days! These folks are Dadoak1bookshop (dadoak1).
GreenAppleBooks.com – My favorite bookstore in the Bay Area. The antithesis of the nightmare chain online bookstore I refer to above…and therefore a true pleasure as a physical shop, but equally helpful, easy to access, and affordable (new and used) online bookstore, too.
Word Power (http://www.word-power.co.uk/about_us) – a completely independent online bookstore, receiving no state or other funding to advertise, sell, or sustain, so check them out!
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