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How are you supposed to know if you'll like a book if you can't read some of it.
It had a nice little cafe too, its not like they won't make money on people buying a few coffees and snacks as they read a book they might not buy.
I live in Taiwan and the humidity kills books and makes them damp and stinky. So some places our books are wrapped.
Most commercial establishments in the US are air-conditioned. Taiwan has
as you point out
a pretty warm, humid climate. Are Taiwanese bookstores not not typically air-conditioned? I'd think that they'd be a prime candidate.
I was reading about public library humidity and temperature control a month or two back, and it sounded like it was also pretty much the norm to air condition those, for the preservation reasons that you mention.
Even if they are air conditioned it’s quite likely that the air conditioning does not run 24/7
Conditional air conditioning as it were. Novel.
A lot of cultures also don't run AC as cold as the US does.
Growing up, the AC was consistently set to 28C (83F). It was only on from around 2pm to 11pm (via a sleep timer). This was also in a location with extreme humidity.
Sounds like Fully Booked in the Philippines. Books aren't allowed to be browsed before you buy them, sofas aren't allowed to be sat in before you buy them. It's nonsense.
No way in hell I’m buying a sofa without sitting in it. They never feel like one would expect.
It was Tsutaya in Cambodia.
Is Fully Booked popular? I've never seen a bookstore do this, but its the first one I've seen in Cambodia so maybe lack of competition lets them get away with it.
Japan does love to wrap literally everything purchasable in stores in plastic. Abroad wouldn't be immune to this since shared supply chains.
I only saw hentai books wrapped in plastic in Japan but I didn't go to many bookstores while there.
The whole idea plastic waste is bad doesn't seem to have made it over to Asia.
Fully Booked is popular, but that's probably because it's the only actual bookstore franchise in the Philippines. Most other book stores are family owned stores that sell used books. National Bookstore is a joke, and mostly sells stationary.
Hilariously before you named the store I was thinking back of my experience in exactly a Tsutaya in Tokyo.
Found some cool origami books that I had to take a chance on buying them, since I couldn't look through them as they were also wrapped in plastic.
Extra fun tidbit, I bought them tax-free, which is super straightforward in Japan, and then they told me I should not remove the plastic wrap and "use" the books, since that would invalidate their tax-free status and I'd have to repay tax...
How are you supposed to know you'll like a book if you can't read some of it?
Judge it by its cover, obviously.
Could it be the books are wrapped to protect against humidity? This may not be the whole reason why they do it but it wouldn't be the worst one.
I went to a bookstore two days ago, because I knew they had a copy of LOTR and I wanted to see if it had the map included before buying it.
It was the only book that had plastic wrap on it. I didn't buy it...
Might have had the plastic so the map didn’t come out?
Schrödinger's map. It's both there and not there until you remove the plastic.
Seals in the flavor
Why everything gotta involve plastic.
Because it's a byproduct of the petrochemical industry and is not only basically free, but they actually cannot stop producing it or the cogs of the industry will seize up.
kinda stupid to given the main reason to buy at a store rather than online is to check out what your buying.
I remember some manga stores in Japan where the staff would go around stopping you from opening them whenever they saw it. I'm a very slow Japanese reader. I just wanted to get a taste of it and wouldn't have read that far, but they would have none of it.
I only buy manga that's wrapped. Because when you unwrap it there will be anime boobs inside.
Ok, I can see where that would be hentai-cing.
The sound of Sydsnap panting heavily slowly fills the room
It's pretty common in Japan, but specifically for manga.
It's really weird that Tsutaya would do this because although it was frowned upon in Japan to spend too long reading a book without buying it, Tsutaya was the one to change that norm. They even introduced cafes on premise where you can bring books that you haven't paid for.
more plastic misuse. disgusting.
it's so they don't get flagged as a bathroom book.
One of the many plots that wouldn't be possible with modern day cell phones.
Yeah, that bookstore looks pretty upscale, nearly a boutique, especially in a developing country. Not unlike others built for bookworms where browsers are free to read almost anything.
In that place, the customer is not always right.
Asides from the protection from humidity and dirt, I feel they also don't want to sell a frayed damaged book or magazine -- I feel that would count for them as a loss -- unless the customer paid for it, so they put limits on casual browsing. This, RFID tags and CCTV cameras to deter shoplifters.
Otherwise and in some places they put out a selection of open unwrapped publications and let anyone, provided they also pay for the coffee or hang around and pay by the hour, to read at their leisure in a dedicated cafe.
Only sure way for you to know a new book is to scope out the copy online if it has an ebook equivalent.
i’m having problems with humidity in puerto rico as well… understandable
Maybe most of their business is online.
Also, I imagine most of their walk-ins come in to buy a specific book they found on their website, rather than wait for delivery.
If keeping the books pristine didn't offset whatever they lose by letting people browse didn't work for them, they wouldn't do it.
Maybe, also, the store is located a culture of higher than normal germophobes. People who are overly worried about touching things other people have touched.
Some online booksellers will let you download a few pages of a book to read before purchase.
You can do that and decide if you want to buy the physical copy.
That said, fuck this place. The joy of opening a new book and reading some of it is part of the process. I’d never come back.
Soo why go there to buy a book instead of ordering it cheaper online?