On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:54:21 +0100
Ian Jelf wrote:
The problem I'm starting to find now is that a lot of shops simply don't
have the range of things I want. For some reason, I've particularly
noticed that with books where I think the wind of Amazon really is
starting to blow.

Next time you're down in London visit Foyles in Charing Cross Road. It really
is the most superb (and large) bookshop and unless what you're after is
really obscure they're pretty likely to have it. Failing that the Waterstones
off piccadilly is apparently the largest bookshop in britain though there
does seem to be a lot of wasted space there so I'm not sure if the actual
number of books they have is as much as Foyles which tends to pack things
in pretty tight.

B2003