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New England independent bookstores

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The online experience of shopping for books, or of reading scanned books, usually suffers the lack of those fortunate accidents; there is no substitute for going from book to book in the flesh.

In New England, especially in cities and college towns, the independent bookstore hangs on and in a few cases thrives. Here are seven great ones, harboring the used and new and rare, but all individuals.

  • DISCUSS Your favorite independent bookstores?
  • PLAN New England travel guide
(Text by Jonathan Levitt for the Boston Globe; Montague Bookmill photo)
The online experience of shopping for books, or of reading scanned books, usually suffers the lack of those fortunate accidents; there is no substitute for going from book to book in the flesh. In New England, especially in cities and college towns, the independent bookstore hangs on and in a few cases thrives. Here are seven great ones, harboring the used and new and rare, but all individuals. DISCUSS Your favorite independent bookstores? PLAN New England travel guide
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