Without exagertion this is the closest to a fantasy I have ever experienced. As soon as you cross the threshold your nose is assaulted with the most charming old book smell known to man.
Was in love instantly.
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This gives me "hoarder den" anxiety
This genuinely makes me anxious. Cannot identify the majority of the books at a glance plus there's so much potential for tumbling down here, goodness forbid I want a book in one of the stacks. I need to look away!
The dessicated forms of past knowledge-seekers had turned into mortar, holding up the precarious walls of ancient books.
"Join us," they whispered.
"Eww," I replied. "Gross."
I had my photographs.
only the owner knows where things are
I feel like if I turned around in that place I would knock over several mountains of paper.
I have been in a book shop like that in Hastings (UK). Two stacks of books before the shelves, and it was worse in the basement, according to the owner. He was a living computer. You tell him you want something about topic and he got three books out of the basement, and tells you it's all he has.
Over the course of a few days, we bought several folding boxes of books there.
My dream home office
I crave a hoard like this
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