Bookshops are better

Forgive me if I'm wrong but with all this new internet shabang, book shops are becoming very overlooked. It's usually easier and cheaper to buy books online but you don't get the whole bookshop experience which life is boring without! So, in the most articulate manner I can, here are my reasons for choosing a bookshop over onlineness!

1) Bookshops are pretty.

Figured I'd start with the most vain of them all.. I'm sorry but no matter how pretty your website is, it's not as beautiful as the inside (and outside) of a bookshop. It's just not possible. All the books just sat on tables and shelves all like "read me plz read me plz" Words can't do it justice.

2) The bookshop smell.

Technology has not yet developed anything that causes our technological devices to spurt bookshop smells at us every time we go online book shopping!

3) Finding more books.

Sure, online you get the recommendations popping up based on books you've previously looked at BUT SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT EVERYTHING TO BE THE SAME.. for instance, online I usually by loads of chiklit.. so that means it only recommends chiklit to me and I don't see any other books unless I specifically search for those titles but sometimes it's nice to walk through a bookstore and be able to look at any kind of book I want! (The book in the below picture is one I recently stumbled across in Waterstones and now wish to buy)

4) You don't have to wait days for the postman to deliver them.

5) It stops bookshops from having to close down!

6) In-store events!

If it weren't for bookshops, I would never had attended An Evening With Patrick Ness and therefore I never would have bought More Than This or A Monster Calls. More Than This has been one of my top ten influential books that I've ever read and if it weren't for in-store events, I probably would have never thought to pick up this book. And to top it all off, Patrick Ness is one of the most lovely people I have ever had the privilege of meeting!

I could think of a billion and one more reasons but I want to keep this blog post length rather than novella length..

GO TO BOOKSHOPS PLEASE!