September 2011
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My Mind is an Enigma.: As I see so many bookstores... →
jayelgee:
(From independently owned bookstores, to corporations.)
As so many of my fellow book lovers blame the eReader.
I’m not going to say that I’ll never buy an eReader. I used to be venomously against them but I do see their practicality. I love the feel of turning pages, I love the smell of books,…
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I Wanna Go To South Korea: The major Korean... →
iwannagotosouthkorea:
The major Korean bookstores by Suzy Chung on September 21st, 2011
“Autumn is the season for reading”, the Korean saying goes. This isn’t simply because it becomes gloriously sunny and cool, which is perfect weather to become engrossed in a book on a park bench, but because autumn is…
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There's something about closing bookstores that...
strandedwednesday:
I guess it’s one down side of technology. Instead of leafing through the pages of a book, you flip through an electronic one which, might I say, is not the same :(
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Page148: funny habits →
page148:
Had dinner at the mall with my family and before we went home, I dropped by Kino.
I made an initial lap in the new arrivals section then my brother met me at one aisle. He listened to me yak away about some books on the top shelf. An Emirati man dressed in a kandura was browsing books nearby…
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Today's City Adventure
oddinside:
So, for today’s activities, I planned to attend an AYCC (Australian Youth Climate Coalition [I think…])/350 event. The event started at around 3pm, but I arrived in the city at around 12. I did this on purpose - I wanted to make a day out of it all, I wanted to walk around the city by myself. So I spent two hours in Kinokuniya, reading books and manga, and ended up buying two manga...
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Kenny Chan: The Chain x The Independent →
Kenny Chan is the Store Director and Merchandising Director of Books Kinokuniya, a much-loved bookstore in Singapore. Kinokuniya Singapore began with opening its first bookstore at Liang Court in 1993. Starting out as a bookstore that mostly catered to the Japanese community in Singapore, Kinokuniya has since expanded to become a massive chain that holds an extensive collection of over 500,000...
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Hark! A Vagrant
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August 2011
30 posts
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Kinokuniya
mychannieisgongchannie:
I went to Kinokuniya Bookstore in Seattle today at first I wanted to buy just the kpop magazines but I went up stairs and my sister pointed out the kpop cds, i didnt see them at first and I got SHINee Replay Japanese Single Album and Beast So Beast Version B Japanese Album i put the 2 magazines i got from downstairs back. All together it costed about $79. Next time i will...
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