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Used bookstores: want your shelves to tell their own story? Read on.

Publication: Los Angeles Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Used bookstores: want your shelves to tell their own story? Read on.(BUZZ: At Your Service : The Best of L.A.)

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Not long ago neighborhoods like Hollywood, westwood, Long Beach were rife with used bookstores. Wafts of musty leather seduced wayward pedestrians, hinting at the undiscovered texts piled haphazardly inside. But as browsing the aisles has given way to scouring the Amazon, many of L.A.'s best-known purveyors of secondhand books have vanished. (In the last year alone we've lost Hollywood Book City, CM in Silver Lake, and Dutton's in North Hollywood.) Those that remain have a large niche to fill. Where rare and antiquarian bookshops sate the desires of the serious collector, used bookstores serve as part lecture hall and living room,...

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