Have bookshops now entered the world of quirky eccentricity?<\/p>\n
It seems like only yesterday experiencing the novelty of buying a book through Amazon for the first time and now its almost all digital whether screen or audio.<\/p>\n
I noticed Simon Prim\u2019s bookshop in Kinsale and the word \u2018Bibliotherapy\u2019 in the signage and it made me think about the role books and bookshops now have in our digital world.<\/p>\n
Having a place where you can explore books, hold them in your hands and feel the weight of their pages as you turn them; where words transport us to other places, other times and other lives, is perhaps a therapy we all could use a little more of again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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