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Cosy, peaceful bookshop where shelves are packed with a broad range of titles spanning fiction, non-fiction, travel and plenty more besides
Ran out of recent photos to post, so I went back to pics of my last trip to Bangkok to create a mini series of building interiors seen there. This was the beautiful modern bookshop found at the top of the very stylish Central Embassy mall.
Another interior view of the book store at the top of the Central Embassy mall in Bangkok, Thailand.
It's already the 15th of February here but still not too late to wish you in the West a Happy Valentine's Day :-)
London people, a street portrait
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Tout fait musique dans le livre, pour peu qu'on ait l'oreille : le dos d'un volume cousu émet, quand on l'ouvre, d'imperceptibles pétillances, celui d'un vieux livre de poche un sinistre craquement qui amorce l'effeuillage ; le grain du papier feule et la couverture vibre sous les doigts de l'impatient. Mais le plus beau des bruits est celui des pages non massicotées que l'on coupe. Annie François
Mostly from the Soviet era, although I was lucky to find a 30 year-old book of photographs by Annelies Strba with German and English text in very good condition.
In April 1991, and in the face of a rather large overdraft, American Mary Manley decided to open a secondhand bookshop - one that would be based on the swap system and called Barter Books. Her husband, Stuart (originally from Durham, so nearly a local!) immediately took to the idea and suggested that Mary open the shop in the front room of what was then his small manufacturing plant, located in Alnwick's magnificent old Victorian railway station. From that time a joint partnership was formed that would eventually result in what the New Statesman magazine would call 'The British Library of secondhand bookshops'.
The above is an excerpt from www.barterbooks.co.uk/html/About Us/Shop History.php - a site well worth visiting, as is the bookshop itself - and it's now a lot bigger and definitely a lot cosier than it was when we first visited with our then little kids back in the 1990's!
100x 2023 edition - Northumberland revisited - 73/100
This bookshop is the oldest in Sweden and was started in 1815 - 100x the 2015 Edition.
115 in 2015 #83 Addiction (I'm addicted to books)
This photo was taken by Sophie, during her recent visit to this wonderfully sprawling philosophy bookshop in Rome, Italy.
Sophie tells me that "the bookshop's resident cat was very helpful and recommends Kierkegaard for existential crises".
Come winter, me somehow go to Carl Zeiss lenses. Planar type.
Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm f1.8 concave. Modern lenses may be sharper and have better IQ in many aspects (when messured) but Ultron (pretty much all version of the lens, but this one in particular), have this sweet spot of sharpness, micro contrast, cooler colors and decent to quite interesting bokeh.