I’ll offer another perspective: human interaction. Good book stores have good staff, helpful other humans that will engage with you and guide you to something y

I’ll offer another perspective: human interaction. Good book stores have good staff, helpful other humans that will engage with you and guide you to something you would like. Computers can fill some, but not all of this role. We are social animals. We are hard wired to feel good when we are in community with other humans, and to (in cases) develop psychosis when deprived of that contact[1]. The price of a book is trivially easy to compare, while the value of social interaction is hard to quantify. Replacing in-person commerce with online shopping because it is less expensive or more convenient may not be as good a deal as it seems. 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131183/#abs0002title https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131183/#abs000...