Like many people, I’m charmed by bookstores. I’m planting this note to collect quotes and observations about them. Robin Sloan, in his Aspire Zine, Information technology should aspire to the speed and privacy of the printed page: A person visits a bookstore not primarily because they need a book, but because they are the kind of person who visits a bookstore. (The zine is a ~1,500 word creative essay & experiment on how e-books should work. It’s sold out, but email me if you’d like to borrow my “copy”—I own the printed version, and I can lend you my e-copy.)...