On Wednesday, I went into Barnes & Noble looking for a book buy my father for his birthday. I had several ideas, but the store — and it’s a big store — had none of them in stock, even though none of them were obscure titles. I found this so frustrating — unusually so. When I stopped to think about why I was more irritated by this than I really ought to be, I realized that it was because I’ve gotten so used to being able to get my hands on what I want to read, almost instantly, via Amazon.com and my Kindle app on iPad.
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