{"id":6139,"date":"2012-07-02T01:14:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2012-07-02T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T06:14:59","slug":"books-revisited-7366-a-two-notch-road-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Books Revisited, 7366-A Two Notch Road: June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Books Revisited<\/i> was the follow-on operation to the Two Notch location of The Book Dispensary<\/a>, and occupied the same space in Tillman's Plaza<\/i> near the Two Notch K-Mart. I believe they also used all the shelving, counter and other fixtures left over from The Book Dispensary<\/i> so the shops looked very similar.<\/p>\n

In the event, I only stopped by Books Revisited<\/i> once. I browsed the Science Fiction section, and picked up a couple of Berserker<\/a> books by Fred Saberhagen who had at the time just recently passed away. The staff was friendly, and the place was comfortable: well lighted and not cramped -- there used to be some real dives I surfed for used books in. So why didn't I go back? Well, I certainly hadn't ruled out doing so, but I think it's the old story of internet disintermediation and getting what you want vs serendipity and getting what you didn't know you wanted. As things stand now, I can probably get any paperback that pops into my head for a few cents on Amazon (though it will cost more to have it shipped..) rather than looking around town in the hopes I might find it, and I find that as I get older, I seem to have less and less time and interest in plowing through stock. It used to be that I would go to Woolworth's<\/a> and check every LP in the cut-out bin, or check every book in the Science Fiction and Humor sections at The Book Dispensary<\/i> or The Paperback Exchange<\/a> or George's<\/a>. I found a lot of treasures that way, and wouldn't take any of those hours back, but I'm just not willing to do it anymore. And I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect, unfortunately for places like this, that a lot of other people aren't either.<\/p>\n

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Books Revisited was the follow-on operation to the Two Notch location of The Book Dispensary, and occupied the same space in Tillman's Plaza near the Two Notch K-Mart. I believe they also used all the shelving, counter and other fixtures left over from The Book Dispensary so the shops looked very similar. In the event, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26,78,4,156,54],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-dentsville","tag-stores","tag-tillmans-plaza","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}