Borges famously imagined Heaven to be a kind of library, but despite most booklovers’ devotion to libraries, many of us are probably even more devoted to bookstores…especially bookstores that look like this one ( Shakespeare & Co. in Paris):
Booklovers everywhere will love these photos of the other “Most Beautiful Bookstores of the World” posted at Mirage Bookmark.
Found at Bibliophile Bullpen
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"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
The Shadow of the Wind
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