~ Giving Thanks

With our Canadian Thanksgiving behind us and the U.S. coming up, it seems appropriate to honor family-time.

Many questions about the future of reading have been raised with the arrival of computers.

To imagine a world without books is to deny that people are attached to the old familiar form that generations have read to their children. Imagine passing down a copy of Nancy Drew that belonged to you, to your daughter ~ on a Kindle! Imagine the loss of a story before bedtime. Could anyone look back on their childhood and fondly recall gathering around a computer?

In a used bookshop, it remains dear to our hearts that customers constantly ask for nostalgic volumes that have little value other than that it is a book their Mother used to read to them.