[ellius]

There is only one physical bookstore I go to anymore, and it's for exactly the same reason. The walls are positively stuffed with books. Nothing can beat Amazon for speedy search. If I know exactly what I want, that's where I'm going. But that feeling of browsing around and coming home with a bag full of books you'd never have thought of, or of hanging out in a community of readers, is not replicable online. I think both curation/browsing and creating hangouts (really good coffee or whatever) are ways physical stores can still compete.