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  1. En la Praga somos muy muy fans de #Bolaño. Por mil motivos pero también porque era #unodelosnuestros.
    Este libro estaba descatalogado y absurdamente caro de segunda mano. El librero dice que se lleva uno, que no tiene nada que leer, pero tendremos más.
    "Notas para una autobiografía", #Alfaguara
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    libreriapraga.com/lodehoy/
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    #librería
    #libros
    #books
    #Granada
    #libreríasdeGranada
    #bookshop
    #bookstagram
    #libreríadeviejo
    #booksofmastodon
    #librosdeMastodon

  2. >>We mentioned the case of the bookseller in a branch of WH Smith who was asked if there was any Chaucer in stock (April 25). ("I'm sorry", was the reply, "we don't have a crockery department.") But the customer isn't always so very right himself, you know. Rupert Marlow writes from Turnastone in Herefordshire with word of an incident at Hatchards: one day a man, presumably given a shopping list by his wife, walked in and asked for a copy of Night Cream by Elizabeth Arden ...<<

    "Public facing." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, June 6th, 2025.

    #Books #BookSelling #Bookshop #Bookstore #WHSmith #Hatchards

  3. Ler Devagar is a bookshop in the LX Factory in Lisbon. Books line the walls on shelves too far up to reach, and of course, most of them are in Portuguese. There are a few in English, and even a few photography books. Unfortunately, many of them concentrate on architecture, but there was a really nice book on shopfronts in Paris.

    A dog in a bookshop! Try that in Ireland and the staff will chase you out of the shop. It was lovely to see dogs allowed in shops and some restaurants.

    When in a bookshop, look at your phone. Oh, here’s a fire extinguisher too!

    Apertureƒ/2.2CameraGalaxy S23 UltraFocal length2.2mmISO800Shutter speed1/25s

    https://inphotos.org/2023/12/16/in-ler-devagar/

    #a8ctravel #BlackAndWhite #Books #bookshop #Lisbon #LXFactory #Portugal #StreetPhotography