My city is the same. Borders used to stock a fantastic selection of technical books. Since they closed down, our only other large (multi-story) bookshop is Wate

My city is the same. Borders used to stock a fantastic selection of technical books. Since they closed down, our only other large (multi-story) bookshop is Waterstones. Their computing selection gradually dwindled to a couple of bookcases, dedicated primarily to introductory books (getting started with Microsoft Excel, make the most of my new Macbook - that sort of thing). They had one O'Reilly book (a Docker one). I've got so many great memories of spending time in the bookshop, looking at all the newly published tech books and the venerable classics, deciding what I was going to learn next. Books that had been edited and reviewed, giving such in-depth overviews that you could come away from them saying "I understand this technology". Recently I've realise how reliant I've become on a mishmash of blog posts, API docs, incomplete/outdated product documentation... I know that books haven't gone anywhere, but there's something to be said for the discoverability and tangibility of books at the bookstore vs catalog pages on a website. And ebooks are just not a great experience (currently) when it comes to technical books with diagrams, tables and code examples. They do make for a fantastic complimentary product, however (CTRL-F when I want to quickly look up something I've already read).