{"id":157,"date":"2004-02-18T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:24:31","slug":"a-proper-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/157","title":{"rendered":"A Proper Bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday I went into Gosford Books in Coventry to look for a book for a friend. I had a look over the novels section but didn’t see it. There didn’t seem to be any particular order to the books there anyway. So I asked the owner if he had the book. ‘The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason? Yes, here it is’, he said, as he pulled it out of the middle of the shelf I’d just been looking at.<\/p>\n

That’s a proper bookshop, where the shop assistant can find a book immediately even when you don’t know who the author is yourself. There was one in Nairobi that was similar. I couldn’t remember the name of the author or the title of the book, so I described what it was about and the person in the shop said ‘Ah yes, The Last Time they Met, that’s by Anita Shreve’. Try that in Waterstones, and you’ll get ‘Have you looked in the fiction section?’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went into Gosford Books in Coventry to look for a book for a friend. I had a look over the novels section but didn’t see it. There didn’t seem to be any particular order to the books there anyway. So I asked the owner if he had the book. ‘The Four Feathers, by …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}