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Monday, December 28, 2015

Things book stores are not:

-Public toilets

-Music stores

-DVD stores

-Stationary shops

-Free day care centres or, relatedly, indoor playgrounds to take your children to when it's raining and you want them to burn off some energy

-Rad indoor obstacle courses where you can try out your new hoverboard

-Free conference centres where you can host your business meeting

-Free therapy clinics

-Creches for people who are really, really high on hallucinatory drugs

-Convenience stores

-Post offices

-Weed dispensaries

-General information booths

-General complaint desks

-Public clubs where nerds who are keen to do your homework for you congregate

-Tea or coffee shops

-Emergency rooms for providing emergency health care

-Dumps where you can abandon any unwanted rubbish that happens to be made of paper, including old school notebooks

-Bars or other rendezvous points for lonely people who want to have lengthy conversations with hostage strangers

-Copy centres where you can copy or fax things. Libraries often have copy machines; you are probably thinking of a library.

-Actual libraries.  We sell books, not lend them.

-Places where you can go and read books for free while we charge your phone for you.  Again, not a library.



Naturally, every one of the examples on this list are things for which we have been mistaken.

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