[aplusbi]

There are several libraries in the Bronx (33 by my count). But just as a bookstore isn't a replacement for a library, a library isn't a replacement for a bookstore.

Sometimes you want to own a book, be able to write it in, tear pages out, and make it your own.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Or, if you're Pepe Carvalho, rip off and toss the page you just read into the fireplace.

(Some writers know how to pull strings.)

[prewett]

Hey, none of that! Books are sacred! You can't desecrate a book by writing in it, and Logos forbid that you rip a page out and destroy the sanctity of the text!

[trentmb]

My mistake- I finished that article with the impression that there was a more general "book desert" than just an absence of small book stores.