a foolish consistency
The Bookmark Project
At my microblog, (fleeting), I posted a daily picture of a bookmark from forty-three different bookstores, between 10 July and yesterday. Sixteen of the bookstores are closed and twenty-seven are still around. A better ratio than I was expecting; I thought it would be closer to half. But too many are gone without having been replaced, and we are poorer and more vulnerable for it.
You can find them under the bookmark category, and here are links to each bookstore’s entry:
- July: Odegard’s, St Mark’s, Green Apple, Cannon Beach, Booksmith, Rag & Bone #1, 192 Books, Book Court, Hungry Mind #1, Powell’s #1, Housing Works, Coliseum, Gotham Book Mart, Westsider, The Strand, Hungry Mind #2, Powell’s #2, Common Good Books, People’s Cooperative Bookstore, Biography, Book Book, Bound to be Read.
- August: Hungry Mind #3, Powell’s #3, Amazon Bookstore, Magers & Quinn, Border’s #1, Prairie Lights, Wallace Books, Black Oak, Powell’s #4, Hungry Mind #4, Collected Works, Labyrinth & Book Culture, Border’s #2, Waterstone’s, Powell’s #5, Hungry Mind #5, Book House in Dinkytown, Paperback Exchange, Moon Palace, Against the Current, BookSmart, Hungry Mind #6, Powell’s #6, Border’s #3, Hungry Mind #7, Powell’s #8, Three Lives, The Book Store, Half Price Books, Hungry Mind #8, Sixth Chamber #1.
- September: Antique Books, Books Inc, Ruminator, Amazon.com, Red Balloon, Powell’s #9, Pickwick Discount Books, Birchbark, Rag & Bone #2, Sixth Chamber #2.