How are you supposed to know if you’ll like a book if you can’t read some of it.

It had a nice little cafe too, its not like they won’t make money on people buying a few coffees and snacks as they read a book they might not buy.

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    National could barely able to sell publications as by 2010s nearly everyone went to spend more time online – ebooks, social media, etc. – and even the browsers have disappeared as magazines started to end publication due to mass disinterest, so leaving the stationery business the only thing keeping it afloat.

    Strangely, asides from Fully Booked and that small Japanese bookstore in an uppity part of Manila, the Big Bad Wolf book festival draws a large crowd of bookworms. That for used books, a chain called Booksale is still alive and well – there I bought a 20-year-old paperback copy of Blackhawk Down in fair condition.