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Reading for pleasure: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Reading for school: Information for my Geology course
On the needles: I-pod Nano case
Editing/writing work: WIP novel
Now, I haven't been in a bookstore for awhile. (Shame, hm?) With a student budget, I can't really afford to buy a lot of extracurricular books (which is why I love libraries so much!). The scary thing about this bookstore, though, is that they had a whole shelf unit in the young readers section that was empty! There was nothing on it.
Of course, this empty shelf drew my attention, because the others around it were full. I know that there is a recession in our country right now (Canada), but I did not think that it would equal to having empty bookshelves. In fact, they did not even have the new Princess Diaries book, nor any of the other bookstores (it was a chain), in the city.
It is an interesting thing to observe when we are in recession, there are so many foreboding warnings from the US, and then there have been all the cut backs in publishing south of the border. That, along with the advent of more and more technology for computer reading (I'm thinking along the lines of the Kindle and e-books), I have to wonder what is going to become of bookstores?
I don't think that I'll ever be able to read everything that I do on a computer screen, simply for the eye strain that reading a few pages on the screen can cause for me. I don't think that the publishing industry will ever stop printing ink and paper books, but I do think that they have to diversify for all those who do want e-books; just like the music industry has to.
Still, interesting that there was an empty book unit. I should go back next week and see if it is filled or taken out!
ManiacScribbler =^..^=