Some Johan Jaaffar (zulu.jj AT Gmail dot com) said that

"Bookshops reflect the mental health of a nation. Books are mirror to society. Perhaps it is true about the permancence of books in an impermanent world. Perhaps it is even true that the era of the printed books is at a crossroads. ...

No furniture was so charming as books, someone famously said. People simply buy more books than they can read. In the same breath,humankind writes more than it can read.

I wonder, too , how long bookshops will last with the advent of online marketing, eBay and books on the Net. Perhaps book lovers are a romantic lot, harbouring the belief that book browsing is a fruitful pastime forever."

I am too like the writer above. Buy more I can read and loves book browsing in a bookshiop for hours...