It's not all news about the Church of England in the Church Times - there are light hearted articles too, such as the column on pastimes, which last week was about collecting books. And there, in the middle of the discussion of well loved old school stories, was a mention of Hay.
"You can spend days browsing second-hand bookshops for that elusive volume. In Hay-on-Wye, a town bursting with excellent bookshops, I once found a pristine book I had been searching for, priced at just 50p."
And then he spoils it all by adding:
"But this is time-consuming, and, these days, the internet can match buyers and sellers of the most obscure tomes in seconds."
Ah, well, at least he mentioned us!
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Writers should really avoid comments like that. As the proprietor of an independent bookstore, walk-in customers are really important to the survival of the business.
We recently went to a small mountain town that had a well-known bookstore we were looking forward to browzing through.
Due to lack of customers, he'd closed up shop and "gone on the internet."
If people really want no more stores then keep shopping only on the 'net. After all it only takes "seconds."
OK rant over...
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