vrijdag 5 juni 2015

Bookstore

Bookstores disappear in a high rate everywhere, but fortunately some return again. The big bookstore Scheltema in Amsterdam reopend in another  building last week and on the top floor you have this great view over the city.

Here you can smell the new books again.

The painting of a well known dutch writer "Gerrit Komrij" is waiting patiently to be hanged on the wall yet while the sculpture is looking curiously at his new housing.
Linking to "Skywatch Friday"

18 opmerkingen:

  1. Wish our Barnes & Noble would come back.

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  2. We still have book stores here. Their biggest competitor is Amazon.
    I like the Gerrit Komrij painting.

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  3. I travel to the city frequently to buy books at Indigo Bookstore and also buy online through my Kindle. I love receiving Indigo Book gift cards for presents. There, having said that, my family will read this comment and know what to buy me. ha,ha Lovely library - there's nothing like finding a good book in Bookstore and sitting down with hot cuppa to read first chapter. Have a wonderful day. Truly nice painting and I also like the sculpture.

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  4. So happy to hear! I know this will be a favorite place of yours. Those smells should bring back memories!

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  5. Another interesting sculpture and such good news about the reopened bookstore.

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  6. Glad that a bookstore is making a comeback. I love books, turning their pages....Here in Perth I love going to bookstores and choosing a book to read, sometimes just because it has a great cover. The view of the top floor of the bookstore is fabulous too.

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  7. I love the sculpture, Marianne. Bookstores are such a great place to spend some time.

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  8. Such good news, a bookstore opening and not closing! I really love the smell of books, old and new.

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  9. Dearest Marianne,
    Yes, for people like you and both of us, books are unthinkable of living without! So such a newly opened store brings joyful tidings!
    Hugs and happy weekend.
    Mariette

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  10. You got me to thinking - when was the last time I saw a new store that sold only books open for business? I cannot. I am very fortunate to have a used paperback bookstore only a couple miles from my home. They buy back the books after you are done with them, in the form of credit towards more paperbacks.

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  11. This looks more like a library that a books store. I guess it's a good merchandising style.

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  12. Gelukkig zijn ze er nog in de grote steden. Ik loop altijd wel even binnen.
    Ik las trouwens ergens dat de Slegte weer terugkomt!

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    1. Ja dat las ik ook, de wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit!

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  13. Beautiful view! The place looks quite light inside.

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  14. Looks like pretty good size book store. We have a nice one in Bonners Ferry called "Bonners Book" but the local call it "Johns"

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  15. Als ik met de vrouw op stap ben mag ik de boekenwinkel niet binnen ! Duurt te lang zegt ze dan. Ja, als ik een keer binnen stap vliegt de tijd zo voorbij.

    Nice to see this one returned.

    Fijn weekend Marianne.

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  16. Books and art, how fab! Yes I agree Marianne, long live bookstores everywhere so we don't forget the beautiful smell of real books!

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  17. Books and art, how fab! Yes I agree Marianne, long live bookstores everywhere so we don't forget the beautiful smell of real books!

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