A2: Bookstores

A post on the Mae Travels blog reflects on a recent Ann Arbor Chronicle column about whether downtown Ann Arbor can sustain a full-service bookstore, and offers a reader’s perspective. An excerpt: “I’m a reader. I need new reading material all the time. These days, I read a lot on my Kindle. Eventually I’ll join the other members of my family who have moved on to reading on the iPad. I also read plenty of books. Almost all the magazines and newspapers I read are online, so I read on the computer as well. But the format in which I read has really made less difference to me than the way that I find what I want to read. I think the journalists writing about the book trade do not fully account for this fundamental change in the way that I and many others behave.” [Source]