I remember when the Stanford Bookstore was the largest bookstore in the US west of the Mississippi by number of titles. It had a tremendous technical section, a

I remember when the Stanford Bookstore was the largest bookstore in the US west of the Mississippi by number of titles. It had a tremendous technical section, and all Silicon Valley engineers shopped there and at a few smaller technical bookstores like Stacey's. Stacey's and most of the others are gone, and Stanford gradually went from being a giant bookstore with a gifts nook to a giant gift shop with a book nook.